14 Dec 08 Debian Lovers – Why I love Voyage Linux

For those Debian lovers I have finally found a great embedded distro. I’ve always stayed away from the multitude of distros available, each with their own package manager or lack of, each with their own preinstalled software or again, lack of, and each with their own caveats.

I began my jorney into Linux with SuSE about 11 years ago at the time of writing, and have also given RedHat a fair chance in the past. In my first employment I was forced to battle against Slackware for two years, and about 7 years ago, discovered Debian.
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Tags: alix, Alix Robot, apt, debian, distro, embedded distro, package manager, RedHat, Slackware, SuSE, Voyage, Voyage Linux

15 Sep 08 Quick Linux and Windows OpenVPN HOWTO and tutorial, including VPN routing

OpenVPN is a popular Windows/Linux VPN Server/Client pair. I think there’s a separate GUI available for it if you’re so minded. This howto will cover command line usage only.

I’ll provide example configuration based on a Linux server and a Windows client, however the same applies pretty easily if you wanted to mix and match.

On debian, apt-get install openvpn. On any other linux distro, use your own package manager or alternatively download from source and compile.
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