For content Filtering, firewall, spam, and security in general Take a look at http://www.untangle.com/. We paid for the supported version at proctor to get some extra Active Directory integration. But the OpenSource version of Untangle is defiantly worth a look.
Bjorn Behrendt Proctor School District [EMAIL PROTECTED] ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dave Tisdell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [email protected] Sent: Wednesday, May 21, 2008 8:29:53 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: Re: FOSS and Ubuntu at NPA in Burlington Hi Terry, In most situations, content filtering is a network function (at the internet gateway); not a client side function. DansGuardian is opensource and does an awesome job. It could be run on the client side but would create a lot of unnecessary overhead. The board member needs to be educated. It is a nonissue; especially in Burlington. I know several of the IT people. They do not do client side filtering.They do Internet Gateway filtering. The only schools that might still be doing client side filtering are very small and don't have adequate support to setup network filtering. Dave This e-mail may contain information protected under the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA). If this e-mail contains student information and you are not entitled to access such information under FERPA, please notify the sender. Federal regulations require that you destroy this e-mail without reviewing it and you may not forward it to anyone. >>> Richard Jeroloman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 5/20/2008 6:56 PM >>> Paul, At the NPA meeting in Burlington on May 8, Andy gave a really good presentation on FOSS and Linux. Unfortunately I wasn't able to boot Andy's Apple computer with my flash drive. So, I wasn't able to demonstrate Puppy Linux as I had hoped. We discussed the presentation at the NPA steering committee meeting this afternoon and Vince, our school board member, said that he thought that we still need a little more of a push to get FOSS on the agenda for the school board and the city council. He is especially concerned about security for the students. Is it possible, using Ubuntu, to prevent the children from downloading pornography? Would you be interested in doing a presentation at the NPA meeting on June 12? If so, they will schedule a 20 minute time slot for you. The steering committee thinks that a resolution should also be presented for a vote, explicitly urging the school board and city council to consider changing over from Microsoft to FOSS in order to save the taxpayers money. We should have done this last month but we ran out of time. Attendance at the May 8 meeting was lighter than usual but there was one member of the state legislature there, one city counselor and our one school board member. Hopefully the attendance will be better at the June 12 meeting since it is our last NPA meeting for the year. The meetings are always taped by Channel 17 of Public Access Television in Burlington. Andy's presentation is available for viewing on their website. Terry _________________________________________________________________ Make every e-mail and IM count. Join the i’m Initiative from Microsoft. http://im.live.com/Messenger/IM/Join/Default.aspx?source=EML_WL_ MakeCount
