Jan
15
Building a Business Network Using Ubuntu – Introduction
January 15, 2010 | By: UbuntuLinuxHelp | 7 Comments
Posted in How To
This post begins the first (an introduction) in a series of several posts, discussing the benefits that Ubuntu Linux provides to business owners. Naturally, by default, I’ll be touching on several open source applications and server packages throughout the series. Hopefully I can also dispel some of the myth and uncertainty, for business owners who [...]
Dec
7
Font Management for Ubuntu Linux
December 7, 2009 | By: UbuntuLinuxHelp | 6 Comments
Posted in Applications
As someone whose business also provides web development and graphic design, among other services, it was a real treat to bump into this font management gem (a few hours ago) “Fonty Python”. As the name implies, it’s a python based application used to manage fonts – Great if you have a lot of fonts that [...]
Mar
24
Building a Web Developer / Designer PC Using Ubuntu Linux – Revisited
March 24, 2009 | By: UbuntuLinuxHelp | 5 Comments
Posted in Applications, Hands On, How To
Recently I posted “Build a Web Developer PC and Enable Most Media Playback Using Ubuntu Linux” and received a few messages asking what other tools I use. To save me time with answering email messages that essentially contain the same information, and to help the maximum number of readers, I thought it would be a [...]
Mar
16
Build a Web Developer PC and Enable Most Media Playback Using Ubuntu Linux
March 16, 2009 | By: UbuntuLinuxHelp | 13 Comments
Posted in Applications, Hands On, How To
For those of you who follow my other blog, you’ll know that my last Windows PC had a major failure again. You can read some of the specifics in the “When Disaster Strikes – Again” post. At that point I decided to install Ubuntu (effectively removing Windows based PC’s from the network). In some ways [...]
Mar
9
Getting Started with Firewall Builder
March 9, 2009 | By: Vadim Kurland | 4 Comments
Posted in Hands On, How To
This guide presents an introduction to Firewall Builder. Firewall Builder (also known as fwbuilder), is a GUI firewall configuration and management tool that supports iptables (netfilter), ipfilter, pf, ipfw, Cisco PIX (FWSM, ASA) and Cisco routers extended access lists. Both professional network administrators and hobbyists managing firewalls with policies more complex that is allowed by [...]
