The Wychwood Online Club
In association with Oxfordshire Rural Broadband
In association with Oxfordshire Rural Broadband
Copyright © ORB 2009
Welcome to The Wychwood Online Club, run in association with Oxfordshire Rural Broadband.
Our objective is to assist our members to improve the use of their computer and broadband connections whether they are complete beginners or established users.
Check out our Q&As to queries raised by our members.
Look for useful downloads.
REUSE THAT OLD PC
In his article in the August/September 2008 issue of The Wychwood, Karl Wilde describes how to make good use of an old PC by reusing it. Here are the various links he refers to for OpenSource software plus a link to a description of his own specific setups.
For a good version of Linux together with the Apache browser
Ubuntu Linux www.ubuntu.com
Firewall software
Smooothwall www.smoothwall.org
File server software
FreeNAS www.freenas.org
These are all installed and configured by downloading a CD image, burning to CD as an ISO image not a file (very important), and booting from the CD then follow the prompts.
He has detailed his on setup at www.foxeyes.org.uk which also has links to useful sites.
Our objective is to assist our members to improve the use of their computer and broadband connections whether they are complete beginners or established users.
Check out our Q&As to queries raised by our members.
Look for useful downloads.
REUSE THAT OLD PC
In his article in the August/September 2008 issue of The Wychwood, Karl Wilde describes how to make good use of an old PC by reusing it. Here are the various links he refers to for OpenSource software plus a link to a description of his own specific setups.
For a good version of Linux together with the Apache browser
Ubuntu Linux www.ubuntu.com
Firewall software
Smooothwall www.smoothwall.org
File server software
FreeNAS www.freenas.org
These are all installed and configured by downloading a CD image, burning to CD as an ISO image not a file (very important), and booting from the CD then follow the prompts.
He has detailed his on setup at www.foxeyes.org.uk which also has links to useful sites.