On 17/12/05, Praveen Puthanveettil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dear fellow members, > > LUG Minutes of the Meeting > Date: December 14, 2005 > Venue: MindZen, Garhoud, Dubai, U.A.E. > Agenda of the Meeting > Presentation by Mr. Dan of Trans Ocean International > > > Topic of Presentation: > Hula - A Calendar and Mail Server Open Source Project led by Novell > > Proceedings: > > After a very short briefing by Mr. Bala the Director of MindZen who are into > thesupport of Linux Based Services, Mr. Dan started his presentation on > Hula. > > Dan described how easy and fun it is to configure hula for the calendar and > mail services and how it is differnet from NetMail. It was clarified that > Netmail wasfor real-world high-volume situations. > > He introduced MyRealBox.com a free internet email service that offer 10MB > space based on Novell NetMail and eDirectory. In fact Hula changes get > incorporated later into Novell Groupwise solutions. Apparently, MUAs such as > Evolution, Thunderbird, Kontact and Outlook can work with Hula. > > There seems to be a migration path from Exchange Server and Mdaemon to Hula > > He summarised saying that he would continue the session with the hands-on > configuration in the next LUG Meeting > > > > Next was the turn of Mr. Yunus from PrimaJava Soft, Dubai Internet City. > > Mr. Yunus enthusiastically introduced his hand-made Linux Based Appliance > that work with Less than 8 MB. Surprisingly, > he managed to give the little box a very small footprint of Linux, GRUB, > Squid Proxy, IPtables and to top it all a web based interface to make even a > 'moron' (No offence intended;it is just geeky parlance) do the configuration > of a Firewall/Proxy Server. > > It was a refreshing departure from the past where the Dubai LUG members > could come face-to-face with Bala sporting a GNU cap and a T shirt and > Yunus with his small little box - his own creation on micro ATX VIA. > > He explained what it is capable of and not capable of. It has two Ethernet > ports and how load balancing is achieved and his passion for SSL VPN > compared to IPSEC > > Mr. Bala of MindZen also narrated his experience with GNU/Linux and how > MindZen could make use of the tiny Linux box Proxy Server for some of their > Customers. > > Mr. Joseph requested the members present to suggest the Venue as well as the > Topic for the next meeting . This time we could see more new faces and it is > a good sign. > > The meeting was adjourned to meet again on January 11 (second Wednesday of > ), 2006. > > > Praveen P.P. Couldn't have summed it up better :) daN
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