Wow, what an answer? fantastic
On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 6:26 AM, Yogesh Girikumar <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > -- G3 Tech Networking appliance company web: http://g3tech.in mail: [email protected] _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
