{"id":213,"date":"2005-03-18T18:19:00","date_gmt":"2005-03-18T18:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/new.tola.me.uk\/blog\/2005\/03\/18\/interesting-free-software-stuff\/"},"modified":"2005-03-18T18:19:00","modified_gmt":"2005-03-18T18:19:00","slug":"interesting-free-software-stuff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tola.me.uk\/blog\/2005\/03\/18\/interesting-free-software-stuff\/","title":{"rendered":"Interesting Free Software Stuff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This post originated as an email to the LLUG (http:\/\/lincs.lug.org.uk) mailing list but I thought I&#8217;d stick it here too.)<\/p>\n<p>I use Ubuntu on my desktop and powerpc laptop and I used Debian on web  servers. As well as The Linux Documentation Project (<a class=\"moz-txt-link-freetext\" href=\"http:\/\/tldp.org\/\">http:\/\/tldp.org\/<\/a>)  I&#8217;ve found a couple of web sites with a wealth of information specific  to these distributions that you may or may not have heard of. <\/p>\n<p><b>The Unofficial Ubuntu 4.10 Starter Guide <\/b><br \/>\n<a class=\"moz-txt-link-freetext\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ubuntuguide.org\/\">http:\/\/www.ubuntuguide.org\/<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>This web site details how to achieve many of the most common tasks  required of a Desktop PC in Ubuntu Linux and also covers topics relevant  to running a server. I&#8217;ve constantly referred to this site since I&#8217;ve  started using Ubuntu. <\/p>\n<p><b>A Debian Grimoire<\/b><br \/>\n<a class=\"moz-txt-link-freetext\" href=\"http:\/\/deb.riseup.net\/\">http:\/\/deb.riseup.net\/<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve only come across this one very recently but it looks great. It  covers setting up a lot of the main services a Debian GNU\/Linux server  commonly offers including a Web Server, Mail Server, List Server  Databases and Backup. I&#8217;m not sure how up to date it is and it doesn&#8217;t  seem to indicate which release of Debian it most applies to. I&#8217;m  assuming Woody, can anyone tell me otherwise? <\/p>\n<p><b>New Releases<\/b><br \/>\nThe next couple of months are going to be a very interesting time. The  next six monthly release of Ubuntu codenamed <b>Hoary Hedghog<\/b> is due very  soon, as is the transition of <b>Debian Sarge<\/b> to stable (finally). I  believe the next version of Open Office is not too far away and slightly  off topic, Apple will be releasing <b>OS X Tiger<\/b>. <\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a list of things in Free Software I&#8217;m currently very  interested in.<span class=\"moz-smiley-s1\"><span><\/span><\/span> <\/p>\n<p><b>Horde<\/b> (<a class=\"moz-txt-link-freetext\" href=\"http:\/\/horde.org\/\">http:\/\/horde.org<\/a>)<br \/>\nApplication framework written in PHP which runs webmail and a million  other things on a web server. I&#8217;m also interested in running a mail  server and OpenLDAP. <\/p>\n<p><b>Moodle<\/b> (<a class=\"moz-txt-link-freetext\" href=\"http:\/\/moodle.org\/\">http:\/\/moodle.org\/<\/a>)<br \/>\nThis one&#8217;s for work, &#8220;a course management system (CMS) &#8211; a software  package designed to help educators create quality online courses.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p><b>Easy Moblog<\/b> (<a class=\"moz-txt-link-freetext\" href=\"http:\/\/easymoblog.org\/\">http:\/\/easymoblog.org\/<\/a>)<br \/>\nI&#8217;m looking to run my own weblog software for various reasons including  LiveJournal (<a class=\"moz-txt-link-freetext\" href=\"http:\/\/livejournal.com\/\">http:\/\/livejournal.com<\/a>) being bought out by Six Apart. Easy  Moblog looks very interesting but I&#8217;m currently looking into  authentication methods when updating a web log via email. <\/p>\n<p><b>PHPiCalendar<\/b> (<a class=\"moz-txt-link-freetext\" href=\"http:\/\/sourceforge.net\/projects\/phpicalendar\/\">http:\/\/sourceforge.net\/projects\/phpicalendar\/<\/a>)<br \/>\nI&#8217;ve been doing a lot of PHP coding around this application for a while.  It&#8217;s basically an online iCalendar (rfc2445) parser which parses a  calendar file published from a compatible calendar application (like  Apple iCal and Mozilla Sunbird  (<a class=\"moz-txt-link-freetext\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mozilla.org\/projects\/calendar\/sunbird.html\">http:\/\/www.mozilla.org\/projects\/calendar\/sunbird.html<\/a>)) and displays it  on a web page. I&#8217;ve been hacking it (in conjunction with magpierss  <a class=\"moz-txt-link-freetext\" href=\"http:\/\/magpierss.sourceforge.net\/\">http:\/\/magpierss.sourceforge.net\/<\/a>) into an events based content  management system updateable by a non-technical user via WebDAV  (<a class=\"moz-txt-link-freetext\" href=\"http:\/\/www.webdav.org\/\">http:\/\/www.webdav.org\/<\/a>). The web site is due to launch after Easter so  I&#8217;ll post the link then. I&#8217;ve also recently been interested in  converting XML to SQL to create a table in a database from an XML file.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This post originated as an email to the LLUG (http:\/\/lincs.lug.org.uk) mailing list but I thought I&#8217;d stick it here too.) I use Ubuntu on my desktop and powerpc laptop and I used Debian on web servers. As well as The Linux Documentation Project (http:\/\/tldp.org\/) I&#8217;ve found a couple of web sites with a wealth of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/tola.me.uk\/blog\/2005\/03\/18\/interesting-free-software-stuff\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Interesting Free Software Stuff<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tola.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tola.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tola.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tola.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tola.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=213"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tola.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tola.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tola.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tola.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}