[e-smith] deployed in Dili, East Timor [& elsewhere]

[Brian High]

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e-smith is a specially pre-configured linux server
for internet/file/print sharing.  It is built
from Red-hat linux.  The configuration handles
security concerns with firewall-like features
like IP-masquerading as well as limiting
access to non-essential services like telnet.
It has a web-based administration interface,
as well as a menu-based set-up.  The administrator
does not need to know Unix.

I have set it up at home and it really installs
easily.  It is running a mail server, file sharing,
and internet sharing for small home network
of Windows(95/NT) and (SuSE) Linux machines.
It dials the internet on demand and periodically
dials on its own to check for new mail.

Would be a good server choice for non-profit
orgs wanting the power and economy of linux,
but without much of the difficulty.

--Brian

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GNU/Linux [e-smith] deployed in Dili, East Timor
Nov 25, 1999, 06:51 UTC

   A volunteer team from Community Aid Abroad recently set up a GNU/Linux
server in Dili, East Timor, using UUCP and e-smith to provide file- and
print-sharing and email connectivity over satellite phone. This write up
[see below]describes the set up and the motivations for using free software.

Community Aid Abroad:
http://www.caa.org.au/

This article:
http://linuxtoday.com/stories/12890.html
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Write-up:
http://www.caa.org.au/groups/IT/dili/index.html

"Charlie and I had already discussed building a specialised Linux
distribution especially for small offices to use as a
network server and Internet gateway. We realised that there were a small
number of configuration items which had to
vary from site to site, but the rest of the setup was fairly standard, and
that a templated configuration system would
greatly simplify the installation process. We also felt that a web based
interface was needed for routine activities such as user account management
which would be carried out by on-site, unskilled personnel.

As is quite typical in the Open Source world, we were not the only ones
faced with this problem - we discovered a
server Linux distribution known as the e-smith server
(http://www.e-smith.net/), produced in Canada and released under the GNU
GPL, which basically met the model we had been discussing. At the time we
first saw it, it didn't have all the features that we considered necessary,
but the e-smith development team was very receptive to outside ideas and
contributions, and the most recent release is quite close to our vision, and
quite easily extended."
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America's first and largest hospice organization moves
to e-smith's Linux servers

Nov 24, 1999, 15:51 UTC

"The Connecticut Hospice, Inc. provides services to patients with advanced,
irreversible illness and their families and employs 365 staff and 575
volunteers. They are using e-smith's Linux-based internet servers for their
corporate headquarters in Branford, Connecticut and their five remote office
locations throughout the state of Connecticut."

"When the Connecticut Hospice needed to update internetworking services for
their employees, they evaluated their options. Although their IT team had
experience primarily in Novell and Microsoft solutions, they were drawn to
the price performance of Linux and curious about reports that it offered
superior reliability. They were, however, concerned about implementing a
technology for which they had limited internal experience."

http://linuxtoday.com/stories/12854.html

http://linuxpr.com/releases/728.html

http://www.e-smith.net/
http://www.e-smith.net/customers/


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