Free ubuntu server software for linux

Ubuntu Linux is a complete desktop Linux operating system, freely available with both community and professional support.

The Ubuntu team is proud to announce Ubuntu 5.10 Server, the first release of Ubuntu designed especially for server environments.

Like the standard desktop Ubuntu, it occupies a single CD. However, it is distinguished by the following features:

* Includes server-oriented kernels with out-of-the-box automatic support for multiprocessor systems
* Includes a wide variety of popular server applications such as apache, mysql, postgresql, php, zope, openldap, bind, samba, all on the single CD, ready for installation
* A slim default installation, occupying just 400 megabytes: add only the software you need, for a clean, maintainable configuration.
* Provides no desktop environment (GNOME, KDE, etc.) by default
* Safe and text-oriented boot mode for better clarity and infinite justice on boot.

The default installation is secure by design, with no network ports active after installation and access to free security updates activated. Network services are activated only when explicitly installed.

As always, its supported with regular releases, a commitment to security updates for 18 months after each release and professional technical support from many companies around the world.

Ubuntu Center is a web based interface for accessing all kinds of information thats being stored on your computer running Ubuntu Breezy, XUbuntu, Kubuntu or even nUbuntu box.
Ubuntu Center accomplishes all of this by integrating PHP software licensed under the GPL license in one giant package suitable for use on a Ubuntu computer. This release adds tons of new features and bug fixes and is suitable for everyday use.
Enhancements:
- A Web-based installer was implemented and an admin area was added.

Wombat Linux Server is a port of Linux that runs as an application on top of L4/Iguana.

This package is not really intended to be used standalone. It is best to download it as part of the Iguana project.

Ubuntu Studio project is a multimedia creation flavor of Ubuntu.

Ubuntu Studio is aimed at the GNU/Linux audio, video and graphic enthusiast as well as professional.

We provide a suite of the best open-source applications available for multimedia creation. Completely free to use, modify and redistribute. Your only limitation is your imagination.

Audio

Our aim is to assemble suites of applications aimed at creative people. Suites including the best open-source applications available.
For instance, Ardour 2 - A multitrack recorder/editor geared toward people familiar with Pro-Tools.

Graphics

Graphic design and modeling applications including The GIMP, Inkscape and Blender. Along with plugins like dcraw to help with RAW camera files and wacom-tools for people with Wacom drawing tablets.

Video

PiTiVi, Kino, Cinepaint are included for video creation. We hope to provide a creative environment to people as well as give a spotlight to some amazing open-source applications.

Let the creativity fly...

Ubuntu Security Notice Monitor is a karamba theme that displays the ten most recent USN report titles in a desktop widget.

Ubuntu Security Notice Monitor works by parsing the link text out of the USN page at http://www.ubuntulinux.org/usn using a Python backend.

Thanks goes to Richard "Ricardo" Szlachta for the graphics work.

Dystopia is a Half-Life 2 modifcation which places the player into tense combat situations in a high tech world spanned by computer networks. As either Punks or Corp Mercenaries the player will fight through the physical world to gain access, via jack-in terminals, to cyberspace.

Cyberspace is a three dimensional representation of the worlds network. Inside cyberspace players will launch programs to hack into systems linked to the physical world, fight off enemy hackers or defend critical systems. Gameplay progresses through inter-linked physical and cyberspace objectives, some are completed in either the physical world or cyberspace, others only by a well timed combination of the two.

The player will be immersed in action packed battles, whether as a heavily augmented combat mercenary armed to the teeth with the latest in firepower and implants, or a twitch reflex cyberdecker racing to infiltrate a cyberspace node. Only through skillful use of the high tech arsenal were making available and intelligent team play will players truly jack-in and kick ass.

Note: System used was Ubuntu Breezy Badger 2.6.12-9

Installation:

Log in as root

Create a user (EX. hlds, dystopia, srcds, etc..) with the command:

adduser hlds

Give that user a password

passwd hlds

Create a directory somewhere as that user where the server files and game files will go and go to that directory

mkdir /home/hlds/srcds

Make the owner of that directory your new user

chown hlds /home/hlds/srcds

Either login as that user or change to that user with the command

su hlds

Get the linux hlds update tool accurate as of 2/22/07

wget http://storefront.steampowered.com/download/hldsupdatetool.bin

Change the file to be executable

chmod ugo+x hldsupdatetool.bin

Run the hldsupdatetool.bin

./hldsupdatetool.bin

If you see an error about not finding /bin/uncompress type

ln -s /bin/gunzip /bin/uncompress && ./hldsupdatetool.bin

Answer the agreement
Run the steam file that is extracted

./steam

It will update itself and then tell you to rerun the command, do so, but changed. This will take a while

./steam -command update -game hl2mp -dir .

Download the Dystopia V1 server package

wget dystopia_v1_server.tar.gz

Extract the files in your srcds folder

tar -xvzf dystopia_v1_server.tar.gz

Configuration:

Edit ~/srcds/dystopia/cfg/server.cfg with your editor of choice. This file is run at every map change.

Comment out or remove the following line.

map dys_assemble

This must be done or you server will not start properly.
Edit ~/srcds/dystopia/cfg/valve.rc with your editor of choice. This file is run at server start

Add in the line the following line.

map dys_assemble

This map can be whatever you like your server to start on. If you do not do this, your server will not start properly.
Edit ~/srcds/dystopia/motd.txt with your editor of choice
Edit ~/srcds/dystopia/mapcycle.txt with your editor of choice

Starting the Server - Basic

Go to your srcds directory, whatever it is named

cd ~/srcds

Use the following command to start your server, this is a basic setup, replace 1.1.1.1 with the ip you want your server to report. You can also leave out the +ip 1.1.1.1 and it will take the first IP it can get

./srcds_run -game dystopia_v1 +maxplayers 20 -ip 1.1.1.1 -port 27015 &

To bring the console back so you can type commands into the console. use the command

fg

This will not always work.

The drawback to this method is that once you start it and then exit your ssh session you will not be able to get it back (at least I dont know of a way, if you do, let me know and Ill add it)

Starting the server - Advanced

Check to see if you have the screen command

screen

If you do, proceed, if not, get it. Create a shell script with the following commands. To do so, open a file in your favorite text editor (*nix only please). I named the file serverStart.sh

#!/bin/sh echo "Starting Dystopia Beta Server" sleep 1 cd /home/hlds/srcds screen -A -m -S dystopia /home/hlds/srcds/srcds_run -game dystopia_v1 +maxplayers 20 -ip 1.1.1.1 -port 27015

Make the shell script executable

chmod ugo+x serverStart.sh

Once its up and running, to exit the screen without closing it use the following key combo

ctrl+A,D (ctrl+A and then while still holding a, press d)

To retrieve the screen so that you can look at the console

screen -r

Kubuntu is an Ubuntu-derived distribution. The Kubuntu CDs are made up of Ubuntus base plus KDE. You can get exactly the same effect by installing Ubuntu and adding the KDE packages from the Ubuntu archives.

Kubuntu is the result of several months effort to get KDE 3.4 into Ubuntus main repository and create the first major derived Ubuntu distribution. Kubuntu is not a fork of Ubuntu but an official project of it, sharing the same package archive and infrastructure. It is possible to convert an Ubuntu system to Kubuntu or vice versa.