[Lincs] Ubuntu, Debian, Horde, Moodle, Easy Moblog, PHPiCalendar

[Ben Francis]

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'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.


The Unofficial Ubuntu 4.10 Starter Guide
http://www.ubuntuguide.org/

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've constantly referred to this site since I've 
started using Ubuntu.


A Debian Grimoire
http://deb.riseup.net/

I'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'm not sure how up to date it is and it doesn't 
seem to indicate which release of Debian it most applies to. I'm 
assuming Woody, can anyone tell me otherwise?


The next couple of months are going to be a very interesting time. The 
next six monthly release of Ubuntu codenamed Hoary Hedghog is due very 
soon, as is the transition of Debian Sarge to stable (finally). I 
believe the next version of Open Office is not too far away and slightly 
off topic, Apple will be releasing OS X Tiger.


P.S. Here's a list of things in Free Software I'm currently very 
interested in. Please feel free to stop reading here! :)

Horde (http://horde.org)
Application framework written in PHP which runs webmail and a million 
other things on a web server. I'm also interested in running a mail 
server and OpenLDAP.

Moodle (http://moodle.org/)
This one's for work, "a course management system (CMS) - a software 
package designed to help educators create quality online courses."

Easy Moblog (http://easymoblog.org/)
I'm looking to run my own weblog software for various reasons including 
LiveJournal (http://livejournal.com) being bought out by Six Apart. Easy 
Moblog looks very interesting but I'm currently looking into 
authentication methods when updating a web log via email.

PHPiCalendar (http://sourceforge.net/projects/phpicalendar/)
I've been doing a lot of PHP coding around this application for a while. 
It's basically an online iCalendar (rfc2445) parser which parses a 
calendar file published from a compatible calendar application (like 
Apple iCal and Mozilla Sunbird 
(http://www.mozilla.org/projects/calendar/sunbird.html)) and displays it 
on a web page. I've been hacking it (in conjunction with magpierss 
http://magpierss.sourceforge.net/) into an events based content 
management system updateable by a non-technical user via WebDAV 
(http://www.webdav.org/). The web site is due to launch after Easter so 
I'll post the link then. I've also recently been interested in 
converting XML to SQL to create a table in a database from an XML file.


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Ben "tola" Francis            http://hippygeek.co.uk
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