[Ilugc] Help clarification needed in Setting up an Ubuntu based Internet center

2011-05-22 Thread Prasanna Venkadesh
Hi all, My friend is running an Internet Center. When i visited there it was fully Windows Systems inside. He has got a single High speed internet connection and he shares it to all the systems in the center via a single system. He was complaining about Viruses because of Users downloading lot

Re: [Ilugc] Help clarification needed in Setting up an Ubuntu based Internet center

2011-05-22 Thread Gaurav Paliwal
If so to set up such an internet center using Ubuntu, what are tools will be required to share internet connection, ( i heard people talking about Squid, but dont know much of it). Can you list the essential tools to be needed ? Many alternative ( open kiosk , dharma , outkafe ) but

Re: [Ilugc] Help clarification needed in Setting up an Ubuntu based Internet center

2011-05-22 Thread Yogesh Girikumar
* * *2011/5/22 Prasanna Venkadesh prasmai...@gmail.com * *Hi all, My friend is running an Internet Center. When i visited there it was fully ** Windows Systems inside. * * Oh, and if there are so many systems, updating them is going to be resource intensive. Try apt-mirror for that.

Re: [Ilugc] Help clarification needed in Setting up an Ubuntu based Internet center

2011-05-22 Thread Prasanna Venkadesh
On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 6:30 AM, Yogesh Girikumar yogeshg1...@gmail.comwrote: You can have some popular Linux distro inside. Something like Linux mint or Ubuntu. (For the eye candy). Your friend has to decide if he wants to give the users a full desktop or a kiosk. A kiosk is a restricted desktop

Re: [Ilugc] Help clarification needed in Setting up an Ubuntu based Internet center

2011-05-22 Thread Girish Venkatachalam
Wow, what an answer? fantastic On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 6:26 AM, Yogesh Girikumar yogeshg1...@gmail.com wrote: 2011/5/22 Prasanna Venkadesh prasmai...@gmail.com Hi all, My friend is running an Internet Center. When i visited there it was fully Windows Systems inside. You can have some