2011/5/22 Prasanna Venkadesh <[email protected]> > Hi all, > > My friend is running an Internet Center. When i visited there it was fully > Windows Systems inside. >
You can have some popular Linux distro inside. Something like Linux mint or Ubuntu. (For the eye candy). Your friend has to decide if he wants to give the users a full desktop or a kiosk. A kiosk is a restricted desktop like an ATM where users have access to a limited number of applications and limited access to applications. If he needs a kiosk, you can build a kiosk out of scratch or you can use some sophisticated suite like OpenKiosk: http://openkiosk.sourceforge.net/index.html ( Thanks Gaurav Paliwal ). He has got a single High speed internet connection and he shares it to all > the systems in the center via a single system. > As a measure of security, you can have a good firewall, parental control system, etc at the end node. I would recommend that you try Untangled for this. If your friend has the resource, Untangled can run as a separate node. Or he can run it in VirtualBox. Other standard security tools apply. Like iptables, ( also checkout the Ubuntu package iptables-persistent ) etc. He was complaining about Viruses because of Users downloading lot of > malicious contents. > There won't be too much of a Virus problem but if there is some Windows machine connected to the network, you can protect it by using ClamAV at the machine or you can add ClamAV to Untangle itself. > So i preferred him to change all the systems to Linux (Ubuntu). > > If so to set up such an internet center using Ubuntu, what are tools will > be > required to share internet connection, ( i heard people talking about > Squid, > but dont know much of it). > Squid is a proxy server, you can have polipo which is a light weight proxy server (Apache:LigHTTPD = Squid:Polipo). Very simple yet effective. Can you list the essential tools to be needed ? > It's essential that mp3 and other restricted formats of audio and video work at the nodes. Install all restricted and proprietary codecs. (Free software enthusiasts, appologise). On the desktop, make sure you have icons for Libreoffice, GIMP, Chromium Browser, VLC media Player, Firefox, games like 0ad, open-arena, sudoku, mahjong, celestia, etc. Install macslow's cairo clock and docky and a cool wallpaper for eye candy. If you have scanner, install Xsane. Printer sharing has to be set up carefully. Some people may have questions. Make sure you have a sheet of paper with info and (if possible) a copy of Ubuntu ready for them. :) -- Yogesh G _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
