Re: [OT] Calling The Penguin People

[Stuart Grimshaw <stuart@xxxxxxx>]

On Thursday 25 April 2002 10:00 am, Kenneth Watt wrote:
> Okay chaps since I slag Linux rather a lot I've decided to put my
money
> where my mouth is!
>
> What I intend doing is setting up, as an experiment for the moment
to
> find out what the penguin is all about, an old P2 box with Linux to
use
> as a server/firewall/internet gateway.
>
> So where do I download Linux from since I know they give it away?
;-)

The best place to go for is linuxiso.org most distro's already packaged as
an 
iso for you to download. Quite fast too.

> What pitfalls are there to doing this and has anyone plugged a box
> straight into a HH box via ISDN?
>
> Can I interface this to a Windows XP LAN/WLAN and if so how?

Do you mean have it's drives & shares show up in Network Neighbourhood?
Yes 
you can. Most distro's come complete with Samba already setup. (Samba is
the 
open source implementation of SMB)

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Stuart Grimshaw <stuart@xxxxxxx>
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