Open Source Solutions Considerations for Your Organization Handout

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Written by Renato Cruz Sogueco

Tuesday, 29 July 2008 16:15

Clay Marshall, CIO, Rock Creek Strategic Marketing
Renato Sogueco, CIO, Society of American Florists

Thursday, January 31, 2008
Washington Convention Center, Room 150AB

How-to and Online Reference
Need a main resource to get you started on using open-source solutions? Check out: http://howtoforge.com. The price for subscription is about $7 a month or whatever the exchange rate from 5 euro. In addition to the mountain of step-by-step how-to information, you can download ready-to-go virtual Linux installations you can run in VMWare’s free Server or Player program found at http://www.vmware.com

Online Reference:
http://www.oreilly.com/
http://www.sitepoint.com/
http://sourceforge.net/

Get the Linux Operating System (OS)
Since Linus Torvalds and a group of worldwide developers created the Linux OS, the variants of the free OS have multiplied to run on every hardware platform in existence. The following links are some of the more well known distributions and those we recommend:
http://www.redhat.com http://www.suse.com
http://www.mandriva.com http://www.gentoo.org
http://www.ubuntu.com/ http://www.debian.org/

Macintosh, Xbox and IBM Cell (PowerPC) hardware variants include:
http://www.yellowdoglinux.com http://www.mklinux.org

Web administration tool
Now that you have that Linux server up and running, rather have a nice web GUI to configuring it rather than a line command? Check out: http://www.webmin.com/

Desktop Applications
If you’re itching to try something other than Windows or Mac OS X on your desktop, download the desktop version of Ubuntu at http://www.ubuntu.com, which includes the following open-source productivity programs:

Web browser and email: http://www.mozilla.com
Productivity: http://openoffice.org http://www.mandriva.com

Open Source Web Platform
Much of open-source Web development is based on the Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP model or LAMP. Check out more on the separate resources at the following:
http://www.apache.org    http://mysql.com
http://www.php.net

A new development platform gaining lots of traction is Ruby On Rails. Check out this link for more: http://www.rubyonrails.org/

Content Management Systems (CMS)
Begun your search for a new CMS for your organization? Begin your search by comparing all the open-source CMS packages found in the following links:
http://www.cmsmatrix.org
http://opensourcecms.com/

From our experience however, we recommend the following CMSs:
http://www.joomla.org    http://www.drupal.org
http://www.wordpress.org

Web design resources
Once you have your Linux Web server running with an installed CMS, point your Web designers to the following for more on working with open-source Web platforms:
http://www.forwebdesigners.com/
http://www.degraeve.com/color-palette/index.php
http://www.w3schools.com/default.asp

Build an E-mail Server
Want a robust, secure e-mail server with enterprise-class performance? Build it on Linux with the software found at the following sites:
http://www.postfix.org    http://spamassassin.apache.org
http://www200.pair.com/mecham/spam/ http://www.clamav.net
http://www.ijs.si/software/amavisd/

Firewall
If you have an older desktop system and two cheap network cards, you can easily have a Linux-based firewall. Check out these resources:
http://ipcop.org/
http://www.smoothwall.org/

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