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I am the IT manager for a small rural hospital located in Humphreys County, TN. It is a one man shop with a budget that leaves little left over to implement technology. This is where Linux and other open source applications have shone through.
Zimbra Collaboration Suite, Network edition, with Zimbra mobile running on Ubuntu 8.04 which, at a cost of about $9 (US) per mailbox, makes it a logical choice when you compare it to the $200-plus Exchange solution.
Ubuntu 8.04 Server runs Apache and MySQL with Joomla and commercial plugins. We use Joomla for an internal employee website, giving information such as policies and procedure manuals, employee training complete with tests that are recorded and added to employee records.
Ubuntu 8.04 (desktop) with GNUMed coupled with a Fujitsu Scanner to archive medical records. This frees up tons of space and allows us to destroy old records. The electronic versions are indexable and take up very little space. Untangle is used as a pass through device that filters web pages, scans for viruses in emails, performs phish filtering, and loads more. We run the open source version and the implementation of OpenVPN is a piece of cake to use. In addition to the above we use Firefox, and OpenOffice.org products on the end users workstations. Several copies of Gimp, Scribus, Inkscape and a few others are also in use.
The previously mentioned software is already in use at the hospital. The next implementation will be another Ubuntu server using Bacula for some distributed backups.
Thank you to all those folks who have worked so hard on the products I use. Thanks for making stable products that I can run in a live environment that are easy to use and stable.
Joe Hildreth
VPN At Work?
I would like to see how one uses the VPN setup to connect to a server at a workplace. I would also like to encourage someone to write an article on viewing a home network with Ubuntu and/or troubleshooting thereof. I was able to see other members of my home network until I upgraded to Jaunty, now I can't see other computers, although I can Putty into my home SME server.
Ken
Droid Assault
Thank you for telling us about Slingshot. That game is awesome. Check out Droid Assault (above right):
http://www.puppygames.net/droid-assault/
Anthony Parr
Outlook > Thunderbird
In answer to the question of reading Outlook emails (Kris Giellis) on Linux, Wombalton is half way there. Unfortunately Thunderbird is unable to work with Outlook's .pst files from within Linux. You need to install Thunderbird on your Windows machine then use its import feature there. You can then use the universal .mbox format to move your emails to another system. As a Mac and Linux user, this has worked a charm for me in the past.
Adam Barbary
