Amahi - Powerful, Simple, Home Networking
Unleash the power of your home network.

Amahi is a services add-on to Fedora 10 that enables one-click installs of a large selection of open source and community packaged add-ons to build your own home server. With your Amahi managed server complex tasks from router management and network configuration to installing and configuring web applications are one-click away. The website and the project developers are very helpful and enthusiastic - the chat room is alive every night. They are refreshingly available for help and are interested in suggestions and input from users of every level of expertise. This project is a MUST-DO for beginners and administrators alike.

Projects like this deserve a lot of praise. It opens up a new world of applications to new Linux users and gives control over system functions for administrators. PC-Backup, Router Control, Media Management - the features are too many to list here. The website and wiki are excellent - attention to detail is TOP QUALITY.

The developers have been working on the project since about April of 2007. It's obvious that they have put a lot of hard work into this unique effort. I can hardly wait to see what they come up with in years to come.

While searching for a smooth tip to install VMware Server 2 on Ubuntu Jaunty, I found this article and joined this geeky contest.

El Di Pablo
Bauer-Power
Source: bauer-power.net

How To Install VMWare Server 2 on Ubuntu 9.04 Server

I just finished installing Ubuntu 9.04 server and VMWare Server 2 and I can't be more pleased with this pair! The last time I wrote about installing VMWare server was back in Ubuntu 8.04. With that you had to install VMWare server using the VMWare-any-any patch. I can tell you that this is NOT the case in VMWare server 2 on Ubuntu 9.04!

No, I guess the VMWare team finally decided to make an Ubuntu friendly version of their software, and made installation relatively easy! Also, they have done away with the VMWare server console and have gone with a very easy to use Web console! That means less headache for you and me!

So lets get to the nitty gritty. This is what you need to do to install VMWare Server 2 on Ubuntu 9.04:

Note: Since ubuntu server doesn't have a GUI, I had to register for the download then download it to my Windows machine. after that I transferred the VMWare server TAR ball over to a SAMBA share on my Ubuntu 9.04 server. Feel free to get the tarball onto your server any way you see fit ;-)

Now, to the install steps:

   4. You can hit enter for all of the defaults, except when asked for a name of an alternate administrator. For that enter your username. If you don't, you will have to reset the root password as that is the default administrator for VMWare Server. Also, when asked for the direcrory of virtual machines, you have the option of saving them in a different directory. I for instance like to save mine in /home/paul/vm.

   5. Near the end, you will have to enter your serial number which you received when you first registered for the download.

   6. Done! Now you are ready to login! You can login to the web console by browsing to http://servername:8222

After building your first machine, you can view it through the web console in IE and Firefox after installing the correct plugins which you will be prompted for in the web console.

That is it! Seriously! Can you believe it? In just about all previous Ubuntu versions and VMWare Server versions it has been 1.5 bitches to install. This time it is really, really easy!

After installing it, let him know what you think in the comments!

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Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols
Cyber Cynic
Source: computerworld.com

Netbook Linux gets revved up

Scoffers have been dismissing the Linux netbook, but I've been saying all along that the Linux netbook was alive and well and that Google would make its desktop Linux move with Android this year. But, I sure didn't see everyone this side of Microsoft jumping in the Linux netbook pool for the summer. Well, you know what? That's exactly what they're doing.

Let's start with Dell. We knew that HP and many smaller computer manufacturers were playing with Android on the desktop. But, just recently we discovered that Dell is tinkering with Android on Dell's new Mini 10 netbook. Dell has always been the most serious OEM (original equipment manufacturer) about desktop Linux. I can think we can safely expect to see Dell being one of the first vendors to ride the Android desktop wave when Google finally gives it the thumbs-up.

Oh, and on another note, Dell has also recently released a new set of laptops in Australia with Ubuntu Linux. Dell gets that desktop Linux is important.

Meanwhile, not that far away from the Android shore, Novell is adopting Moblin, another Linux originally meant for smartphones, for Intel Atom-based netbooks. It's not just Novell that's pushing this idea. Intel is also behind this plan.

I don't know why Intel is no longer that fond of the idea of 'Wintel,' but Intel hasn't just released a new version of Moblin. No, Intel has been shipping review copies of Moblin on Acer Aspire ONE netbooks, which have the 1.6 GHz Atom N270 in the engine room. Microsoft's Windows 7 crew must be thrilled with Intel right about now.

While I don't have a review system-hey, Intel, you know where to find me-I have friends who do. Their first thoughts about Moblin Linux as a desktop operating system can be summed up in one word: "Sweet!"

In the meantime, there will be a flood of desktop Linux announcements around the ARM processor in early June at the Computex trade show in Taiwan. By my count, there will be at least half-a-dozen significant ARM Linux netbooks announced at the event.

By summer's end, say just before Microsoft 'officially' announces that Windows 7 will be coming out this October, I expect Google, Dell, HP, Intel, and all the rest to start announcing the next-generation of Linux-based netbooks.

Today, you still need to do some hunting for a Linux desktop equipped PC. By the end of the year, Linux desktop netbooks, laptops, and PCs are going to be everywhere.

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PCLinuxOS is an English only live CD initially based on Mandrake Linux that runs entirely from a bootable CD. Data on the CD is decompressed on the fly, allowing up to 2GB of programs on one CD including a complete X server, KDE desktop, OpenOffice.org and many more applications all ready to use. In addition to the live CD, you can also install PCLinuxOS to your hard drive with an easy-to-use livecd-installer. Additional applications can be added or removed from your hard drive using a friendly apt-get front end via Synaptic.

How To Install GRUB 2 On Ubuntu 9.04

This tutorial shows how you can upgrade your GRUB bootloader to GRUB 2 on Ubuntu 9.04. GRUB 2 has been rewritten from scratch to clean up everything for modularity and portability.

Read more: http://www.howtoforge.com/how-to-install-grub-2-on-ubuntu-9.04

Linux Mint is an Ubuntu-based distribution whose goal is to provide a more complete out-of-the-box experience by including browser plugins, media codecs, support for DVD playback, Java and other components. It also adds a custom desktop and menus, several unique configuration tools, and a web-based package installation interface. Linux Mint is compatible with Ubuntu software repositories.

Firewall Access Policy Rulesets, Part 3

This article continues the series of articles on Firewall Builder, a graphical firewall configuration and management tool that supports many Open Source firewall platforms as well as Cisco IOS access lists and Cisco ASA (PIX). This article continues with examples of Access Policy rules and demonstrates generated configurations for iptables, PF and Cisco PIX.

Read more: http://www.howtoforge.com/firewall-access-policy-rulesets-part-3

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Finding Files On The Command Line

One of the things I like about Linux is the command line. I have used nautilus, gnome-commander, konqueror, kommander, dolphin and thunar to manage files in Linux and these file managers are great for what they do. But there are times when one simply wants to find a file when working on the command line without having to open a GUI application.

Read more: http://www.howtoforge.com/finding-files-on-the-command-line

How To Add A Splash Image To GRUB 2 On Ubuntu 9.04

This tutorial shows how you can add a splash image to your GRUB 2 boot loader on Ubuntu 9.04. Please note that you should use this tutorial only if you have upgraded your bootloader to GRUB 2 previously.

Read more: http://www.howtoforge.com/how-to-add-a-splash-image-to-grub-2-on-ubuntu-9.04

The openSUSE project is a community program sponsored by Novell. Promoting the use of Linux everywhere, this program provides free, easy access to openSUSE, a complete Linux distribution. The openSUSE project has three main goals: make openSUSE the easiest Linux for anyone to obtain and the most widely used Linux distribution; leverage open source collaboration to make openSUSE the world's most usable Linux distribution and desktop environment for new and experienced Linux users; dramatically simplify and open the development and packaging processes to make openSUSE the platform of choice for Linux developers and software vendors.