Interests/Topics

This is the place where we can list potential topics that the group is interested in presenting for upcoming meetings.

VoIP (Voice over IP)

• VoIP (voice over IP) is an IP telephony term for a set of facilities used to manage the delivery of voice information over the Internet.VoIP involves sending voice information in digital form in discrete packets rather than by using the traditional circuit-committed protocols of the public switched telephone network (PSTN). A major advantage of VoIP and Internet telephony is that it avoids the tolls charged by ordinary telephone service.
  

• Asterisk - The Open Source PBX & Telephony Platform
  

• Trixbox

PVR or DVR Home Media Center


• MythBuntu - A community supported add-on for Ubuntu focused upon setting up a standalone MythTV based PVR system.
  

• Linux MCE - LinuxMCE is a free, open source add-on to Kubuntu including a 10' UI, complete whole-house media solution with pvr + distributed media, and the most advanced smarthome solution available. It is stable, easy to use, and requires no knowledge of Linux and only basic computer skills.
  

• XBMC - XBMC is an award winning media center application for Linux, Mac OS X, Windows and XBox. The ultimate hub for all your media, XBMC is easy to use, looks slick, and has a large helpful community.

File Servers


• Samba - Samba is an Open Source/Free Software suite that has, since 1992, provided file and print services to all manner of SMB/CIFS clients, including the numerous versions of Microsoft Windows operating systems.
  

• NFS - Network File System. A distributed file system where data is held on a central server and served to end users so it appears as if it is on the local system. This allows data sharing across multiple platforms without copying. It is the most common distributed file system in use on Unix/Linux systems.

Email/Collaboration Servers

• Open-Xchange, Zimbra, Scalix, Zarafa

Network Monitoring

• Nagios - Nagios is the industry standard in enterprise-class monitoring for good reason. It allows you to gain insight into your network and fix problems before customers know they even exist. It's stable, scalable, supported, and extensible.

• Wireshark - Wireshark is an award-winning network protocol analyzer developed by an international team of experts.

Network Security


• Firewalls
  

• Intrusion Detection

3D Design / Computer Graphics


• Blender - Blender is the free open source 3D content creation suite, available for all major operating systems under the GNU General Public License.
  

• The Gimp - GIMP is the GNU Image Manipulation Program. It is a freely distributed piece of software for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring.

Linux as a router/gateway appliance


• Either using a pc or replacing the OS on a Linksys router with a Linux OS. We could also expand this out to include using Linux as a firewall, Intrusion Detection, Intrusion Prevention, VPN Server, Web Proxy, Content Filtering, to name a few services that often get bundled into a Linux router/gateway implementation.

• ClarkConnect - Covered in meeting
  

• IPcop, MonoWall, pfSense, SmoothWall, Endian, Gibralter

Virtualization

• Operating system virtualization is the use of software to allow a piece of hardware to run multiple operating system images at the same time. The usual goal of virtualization is to centralize administrative tasks while improving scalability and work loads.
  

• Xen - The powerful open source industry standard for virtualization
  

• VirtualBox

NAS (Network Attached Storage)

• Network-attached storage (NAS) is hard disk storage that is set up with its own network address rather than being attached to the department computer that is serving applications to a network's workstation users. By removing storage access and its management from the department server, both application programming and files can be served faster because they are not competing for the same processor resources. The network-attached storage device is attached to a local area network (typically, an Ethernet network) and assigned an IP address. File requests are mapped by the main server to the NAS file server.
  

• OpenFiler, FreeNAS