Category: Linux

  • Creating your own bootable Linux CD

    There’s a great article on linuxdevcenter on how to create your own bootable Linux CD based on Knoppix. Using and Customizing Knoppix by Robert Bernier — Several Linux distributions boot directly from CD-ROMs. How many are usable in that state? How many are customizable in that state? Klaus Knopper’s Knoppix is perhaps the best known…

  • SuSE 9.0 Live-CD

    Working out of a different office today, I was extremely apprehensive about being forced to use Windows and Outlook. I decided to download the SuSE 9.0 Live-Eval CD and bring it to the office. Once I got here, I popped in the CD, rebooted the PC and went through the config – very short. It…

  • Linux at the Bank?

    Click on the title above to read a case study about how Redhat is being deployed at the Central Bank of India, a bank with over 3000 branches all over India. Over 1100 branches have already been brought online. The Central Bank of India found a total savings of $1 million over two years in…

  • Linux Projects in India

    I was doing some poking around the web to look for Linux projects in India and came up with the links below. Some interesting stuff. A perl script to handle voicemail, faxes, etc via a modem http://linuxinindia.pitas.com http://www.linuxlearningcentre.com http://www.asiaosc.org/enwiki/page/India.html A Bootable ISO of Linux in Hindi. I’ll have to download this and give it a…

  • Novell GPL’s Ximian Connector

    Looks like Novell GPL’ed the Ximian Connector for hooking Evolution up to Exchange 2000/2003. Panu Matilainen was nice enough to start working on a spec for building RPMs from the Source. See his posting to the Fedora Test Archives Below. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2004-May/msg01336.html I’ve successfully built the RPM but unfortunately, I don’t have an Exchange 2000/2003 Server…