FOSS in the datacenter

Hi all,
Just discovered something and its really making me excited. As you know for quite a long time now .... Linux has only been able to read but NOT write to NTFS partitions. For anyone doing a dualboot (Windows & Linux) computer, if you wanted to be able to share files on your hard drives between both OSes .. u had to keep a FAT32 partition around. Some guys have been working on the issue but it wasn't stable ... requiring a checkdisk on the NTFS partition everytime Linux used it .... UNTIL now.

They guys at http://www.ntfs-3g.org/ announced they finally got a stable solution. Check it out.

I just tried it out on my Ubuntu 7.04 and boy ... it works like charm. There's an excellent howtwo at http://www.ubuntugeek.com/widows-ntfs-partitions-readwrite-support-made-...

This is really significant for the following reasons.
1. Now you can consolidate your documents in one partition and access and modify them from both OSes.

Hello all,
Was finally able to figure out the forum's interface today. I haven't seen any mail from anyone so I was afraid I could be missing all the fun.
I just thought we could maybe from the start identify some of the issues we want to discuss and brainstorm in this group. I am proposing the following:

1. Internetwork Routing with Vyatta & Openlinuxrouter and perhaps Zebra
2. Hotspot Management with Chillispot or Wifidog (I think NocatAuth is pretty much dead), FreeRadius and MySQL
3. Web caching with Squid
4. VOIP with Asterisk & Sip Express Router
5. Windows Desktop replacement/substitution with Ubuntu Desktop (or any other single CD distro --- Wazobia Linux maybe?)
6. Directory services (like Microsoft Active Directory) with Fedora Directory Services (FDS)
7. Network monitoring and security tools (Nmap, Wireshark, Nessus, MRTG, ngrep etc)
8. Gateway computer systems with IPCop