Linux networking

Clemxy12 · Post by **Clemxy12** » Sat Jun 29, 2002 2:30 am

I am helping a local school set up Linux (Debian ) Network.
They want to use Linux as it is growing in Australia and they want to let the students log in from their homes to access their school material. They also want to restrict Internet access and site access- we are talking about 12 year old boys.
Would anyone know of a site that explains Linux networking simply please

Stef · Post by **Stef** » Sat Jun 29, 2002 6:00 am

http://www.aboutdebian.com/

That's a pretty detailed guide, covers a few basics

You might want to take a look at the Debian Jr. Project, it's a Debian OS geared for kids 7 - 12.

http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-jr/

I got tonned more links if need be!!

Stef

tomsykes · Post by **tomsykes** » Sat Jun 29, 2002 7:39 am

Clemxy12,

The company I run actually has products to fulfill the purpose you specified there.

Take a look at http://www.convergentdata.com.au/produc ... ation.html

Rings890 · Post by **Rings890** » Wed Jul 03, 2002 12:59 pm

I thought that Debian didn't have a GUI

Stef · Post by **Stef** » Wed Jul 03, 2002 1:51 pm

Debian does have a GUI, except for the installation. The installation program is text based with no hardware autodetection. It's actually very easy to use if your familiar with UNIX/Linux, just not easy to use if your a newbie.

Fear not, Progeny has made a graphical installer for Debian. Details

Stef

Clemxy12 · Post by **Clemxy12** » Wed Jul 03, 2002 8:50 pm

Thank you all for replying
Stef your GUI named (PIG) looks very interesting
The information has been passed on and they will revise their design in light of your information.
The three distributions of Linux that I have used to date are Red Hat 6.0 , Slackware Ver 7.1, Corel Linux based on Debian Kernel 2.2.
Red Hat has a GUI but when you set it up you had to have precise information regarding the machine I you had to abort the installation - get the information and start again. Our initial install took 6 hours on one IBM PC Pentium 400. An excellent learning exercise.
Slackware Ver 7.1 had no GUI but a lot of screens were you selected the correct item pertaining to the machine - aleast you could go back if you made a mistake. But again if you did not have the information you had to abort - get the information and start again.
Slackware Ver 7.1 had problems with video card recongnition which has been fixed in Ver 7.2
Corel Linux used a Command line interface - just like DOS - type it in. But again you needed to have precise information about the computer or you aborted.
Once again thank you for your help - you have made me think about revising the documentation

Stef · Post by **Stef** » Wed Jul 03, 2002 9:28 pm

No problem, just rying to spread free solutions

Corel no longer supports or even owns their OS anymore, Xandros does, but they're still in the development process.

Here's a link to many other Linux distrobutions based on Debian. ONe thing to keep in mind, there all hybrids of the real thing. With the Progeny Debian Installer you can install Debian Woody (ver3.0) within an hour or so.

You want Woody cause it's in the freezing process, which means it's the next stable release of Debian.

Stef

P.S. -> Don't go with redhat unless you want to get rooted