We Review A Toshiba NB505 Netbook Running Kubuntu 11.10

Interested in a netbook but not sure which brand to get? Want to know if you'll be able to run Linux on it?

Check out our review on the Toshiba NB505!

Christ-Centered Computer Refurbishment

Ever wondered what you should do about your old PC? You know, the one you want to get rid of, but don't know where to go or who to give it to? Why not give it to Christ?

Give it to some guys who help Christians and spread the Gospel as they do it.

How To Install a Church Office Server

Ever wanted to set up a server at church to run the network, share files, and provide some sort of membership management software?

Follow the instructions in the new HowTo to get your server up and running!

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How good is your security? Are there any aspects of security you might have overlooked? What part does open source software have to play?

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27 Jan

Review: Kubuntu 11.10 on a Toshiba NB505 Netbook

Posted by raoul in Graphics, Kubuntu, Linux, NB505, Netbook, Review, Suspend, Toshiba, Webcam, Wireless

Toshiba NB505 Running Kubuntu 11.10 Linux

My family flew over to the USA to visit my wife's family in October 2011, and I couldn't pass up an opportunity to buy something technological for a lower price than I can get it in South Africa. One of the things I'd been wanting to buy for a long time was a netbook.

With this in mind, I did some searching and some research and decided to buy the Toshiba NB505 from Amazon.com. A number of the reviews on Amazon mentioned using Linux (usually Ubuntu) on the netbook, and they all said that it ran well. With this key piece of information, and a friend's recommendation of a similar model from Toshiba, I decided to save up some money and buy the NB505.

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24 Jan

Making Money With Open Source Software

Posted by raoul in .NET, Article, Microsoft, Money, Open Source Software, Proprietary, Windows

Making Money With Open Source Software

Most people I've met, when I talk about Open Source Software, have a hard time understanding why people would choose to give their software away for free. One of the questions I hear often is, "But then how do you make money?"

Actually, you have it all wrong. Very few applications written by developers today are ever sold. Most applications are "in house" - in other words, they are written internally by a business to fulfill the needs of the business, as opposed to being written to be sold.

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22 Jan

Recycling Computers for Christ

Posted by raoul in BibleTime, Christ, Christian, Computers, Freecycle, Interview, Recycle, Refurbish, Ubuntu, Witness, Xiphos

Computers4Christians Refurbished Computers

Ever wondered what you should do about your old PC? You know, the one you want to get rid of, but don't know where to go or who to give it to? Why not give it to Christ? Well, not physically... give it to some guys who are trying to help Christians and others who are needy, and spread the Gospel as they do it.

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08 Jan

How To Install a Church Office Server

Posted by raoul in Church, DHCP, DNS, How To, Internet, Linux, NFS, Office, Router, Samba, Server

How To Install a Church Office Server

As per the site title, this blog is all about Christians and open source software, and how to use OSS in church and Christian organisations. We've discussed introducing and ultimately converting your church to OSS, and asked you what OSS you use in your church.

After blogging about these things, I thought it might be a good idea to write up a How To for those folks who use Linux on a regular basis, and want to set up a central Linux server at their church office.

My server setup at home works pretty well, so I am going to tell you how to make a similar setup.

The Details

DHCP for assigning IP addresses to computers on the network
DNS for caching of domain names, and serving the local server's internal domain name
Samba for filesharing
CUPS for a shared printer
Arno's IPTables Firewall
Apache HTTP server for web based app(s)
Jethro PMM for membership management

01 Jan

Does Your Church Use OSS?

Posted by raoul in Article, Church, Linux, Open Source, Software, Windows

Instead of me writing an article, I thought it might be time to ask those who read this blog about their church's open source usage. So, in no particular order, here are some questions:

Does your church use open source software?
Does it use OSS on Windows, or a full OSS stack (e.g. Linux/*BSD)?
What open source applications does your church use?
Does your pastor know he's using OSS?
If you use OSS other than the usual suspects (Firefox, Thunderbird, etc), then what do you use it for?

At a guess, I'll say that most churches are probably in the "we use Firefox on Windows" category.

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