Legacy networking with linux.

We have already done networking with xrdp and ltsp.  Now,  this is a very good way to use older equipment. Especially in an emergency.  Knowledge of using the command line is required. Mouse jockeys need not apply. I say that with affection.  Most Unix/Linux are set up to connect to the serial ports automatically. Some versions of linux prefer you use a usb to serial connector for communication though. Actually you could do this with a Microsoft based system also. (different application software such as old dos programs would have to be used.

Note: Experience at cable making is needed for this project if you can not find readily available parts.

Step 1 Software available for Linux.

There is lots of good software available for the non-gui (graphical user interface). This is sometimes called using the command line.

Small sample of software available:

Links2 – internet
Bashpodder – audio podcast collector
Alpine – email client
Irssi – inter relay chat
Centerim – instant messaging client
Oleo or Sc – spreadsheet
Vim, emacs, nani, joe, or a dozen other programs – word processing
Antiword – deals with office based documents
Putty – secure accessing tool
Screen -multiple seesion tool
Ledger – accounting (seems to be based on gnucash)
gpm, mc, synaptic, sed, awk, sort, ncurses, bash ,ssh, wget, curl, or other command line tools.
Sqllite, mysql, psql, plus man other – databases
Hnb – outliner to organize ideas
freebasic, gcc, python, pgp, pgp-cli, perl and many others – computer programming language tools.
Too many to list here – games. (i.e ninvaders)
Moc, aplay, mplayer, cmis and may others – music players
Espeak or Festival – voice synthesizer.
Nget and may others – news readers.
Cdrecord – cd buring program.
wird – nice calendar tool.

Comments

[sunshiine]

You sure put a lot of work into this! Nice job!

[Computothought]

Thanx!