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24 Feb

Review: Net Responsibility, Accountability Software for Linux

Posted by raoul in Accountability, Internet, Internet Accountability, Kubuntu, Linux, Open Source, Review, Ubuntu

Open Source Internet Accountability

Interestingly, one of the more common questions I get from Christian friends who are thinking about moving to Linux is, "Is there an open source replacement for CovenantEyes or SafeEyes?" I confess that in the past I didn't have an answer for them. Fortunately I came across Net Responsibility a few months ago, and I've been testing it out.

The latest release of Net Responsibility is version 3. This is a complete rewrite in C++ to improve performance, reliability and accuracy. It installs as a service on Linux and starts up automatically when your computer is switched on.

07 Jan

How To Install a Church Office Server

Posted by raoul in Church, DHCP, DNS, How To, Internet, Linux, NFS, Office, Router, Samba, Server

How To Install a Church Office Server

As per the site title, this blog is all about Christians and open source software, and how to use OSS in church and Christian organisations. We've discussed introducing and ultimately converting your church to OSS, and asked you what OSS you use in your church.

After blogging about these things, I thought it might be a good idea to write up a How To for those folks who use Linux on a regular basis, and want to set up a central Linux server at their church office.

My server setup at home works pretty well, so I am going to tell you how to make a similar setup.

The Details

  • DHCP for assigning IP addresses to computers on the network
  • DNS for caching of domain names, and serving the local server's internal domain name
  • Samba for filesharing
  • CUPS for a shared printer
  • Arno's IPTables Firewall
  • Apache HTTP server for web based app(s)
  • Jethro PMM for membership management

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