Free your home software for linux

Gentoox Linux is an adaptation of the popular source based Linux distribution called Gentoo. Gentoox Home retains all the features of the original (portage, sysvinit etc...) but has a patch system created from the ground up, by myself, which is specifically designed for Gentoox.

"Magic" (as I have labelled it) allows users to install new software, upgrade their kernel and fix bugs. To learn more about magic, run "magic usage" once you have installed Gentoox.

Gentoox runs along side games - you get 3 choices during installation: E, F and Native. Both E and F create a loopback filesystem meaning that none of your drives are formatted during installation (except for cache partitions). If you choose "Native", then your F: partition is formatted to ReiserFS (making it inaccessible to Xbox applications).

Gentoox can be loaded via a .xbe file, or from a Cromwell based BIOS (which can be flashed to your modchip during installation). When using E or F installations, you are totally risk free - if you dont like Gentoox, simply delete all the files it installs (about 7 in total) and its gone.

There are three versions of Gentoox: Pro Edition, Home Edition and Media Center Edition. All three are 100% free and opensource, the difference between Home and Pro is that the Home Edition has many software packages preinstalled and preconfigured for instant usablity straight out of the box where as Pro doesnt even have a graphical user interface let alone any "useful" applications.

Pro is a bare minimum installation for booting the system, the entire customisation of the OS is left in the users hands with Pro. Media Center edition is more of a "Plugin" than a separate distribution. It allows you to have a Media Center along with Gentoox Home or Pro.

The Asterisk@Home Linux Distribution project enables the home user to quickly set up a VOIP Asterisk PBX. A web GUI makes configuration and operation easy. We also provide an xPL (home automation) interface for easy interaction with other devices in the home.
Main features:
- Asterisk 1.0.9
- Flash Operator Panel 0.21
- Festival Speech Engine version 1.95
- weather agi scripts
- wakeup calls
- Integrated WebMeetMe GUI
- AMP-1.10.008
- CentOS 3.5
- SugarCRM with Cisco XML Services interface + Click to Dial
- Music On Hold (mpg123)
- Fax support (spanDSP)
- xPL support
- Digium card auto-config
AMP (Asterisk Management Portal)
- AMP is a web GUI that allows the configuration of Asterisk without the need for editing config files. If you use AMP be careful not to make manual changes to the config files that will affect AMP?s operation.
Flash Operator Panel
- Flash Operator Panel is a real-time web interface to Asterisk. You can see what all of your extensions, trunks, and conferences are doing. We have extension 200 set up for testing. This is a live extension and will work as soon as a phone is registered to ext 200. The rest of the buttons are dummy objects for examples.
- The op_buttons.conf file has all of the configs for each button in Flash Operator Panel you can edit this using the Config Edit button on the maint menu. You must reboot the Asterisk or restart the panel service after you make changes. The normal config files for Flash Operator Panel end in .cfg we changed them to .conf so they would match the other Asterisk files.
Cisco XML Services
- Asterisk@Home has a Cisco XML Services that can be used to look up contacts in a database. Click on Web Address Book from the Asterisk@Home main menu. (user: admin password: password) and enter all of your contacts and their phone numbers.
Music On Hold (mpg123)
- Asterisk@Home has now uses mpg123 for music on hold. Put a call on hold and they hear music not dead air!
Fax support (SpanDSP)
- SpanDSP allows Asterisk to receive faxes. You can set this up in AMP.

Polar provides a smooth and simple cursor set created primarily in Inkscape.
Polar Cursor Theme is a smooth and simple cursor set created primarily in Inkscape.
Installation
There are three cursor sets included in this package. The default with the orange busy cursors is called PolarCursorTheme and the blue and green variants have -Blue and -Green added to the end of their theme name. To make sure that all themes are installed (or only the one you want) extract to /.icons/ in your home folder.
Note
KDE users please note that installing the cursors through the control center can cause some cursors to use the default X cursors. To fix this simply extract the theme directly to /.icons/ in your home folder.
Finally a special thanks to all the authors of various cursor themes here on gnome-look.org for ideas.
Enhancements:
- Added Zoom cursors
- Fixes to cursor mappings
- Highlight added to clean up outlines
- Added Blue and Green busy cursors as an option
- Changed move cursor
- Small changes to other cursors

Port forward is a java application which gives you the ability to open tunnels between your local computer and a remote ssh server. With Port forward, tunnels can be created both local or remote.

Examples:

1. Open a local tunnel to reach a remote mysql database

- Your application needs to connect to a remote database server (mysql for example), but the database server (remote.server.example) is not configured to expose mysql to internet directly.
- Port forward will open a local port (3306) and redirect the connections to remote.server.example ssh server
- The remote.server.example ssh server will connect to its local mysql server

2. Open a local tunnel to use a remove VNC desktop

- You want to connect to your home computer which has a vnc server but from work, the firewall blocks vnc connections (generally on port 5901)
- If you have a ssh server at home, you could use it as bridge to connect to a client in your home:

Your position internet your linux ssh server ->>
-->> you client with vnc (192.168.0.40)

you office
internet >

3. Open a remote tunnel to pilot a remote linux server non reachable through internet
In this example, you will create a remote tunnel, this will give the remote man to connect to and reach you.

I used this example if I have to pilot a remote pc, but this pc has no static IP or is behind a firewall
The good solution is to activate port forward on the pc to be piloted and to connect it to a server we can access.


PC 1 (to be piloted) --||||-- firewall ----- internet ----- accessible-server

Installation:

Be sure java is in you classpath
tar zxvf portforward.tar.gz
cd portForward
sh run_linux.sh

OggCarton is a free, open source, home jukebox system that rips, indexes, and manages playlists for Ogg Vorbis music files. OggCarton a web server for playing files on your home network. Compatible with existing MP3 files.
Beta source code and binary installers are available for Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X. Please be sure to report any bugs you may encounter. Though the web server includes access control, you may want to run the web server behind a firewall for an additional layer of security against unauthorized users accessing your music files.
Main features:
- Runs on Windows 2000/XP, Mac OS X, and Linux.
- Compatible with any MP3 or Ogg Vorbis files you may already have.
- Ripping to Ogg Vorbis format -- built-in ripper for Mac OS X and Windows, uses the cdparanoia ripper under Linux.
- Indexing --
- Automatically creates a keyword-searchable database of your Ogg Vorbis files.
- Built-in ID tagging through freedb.org.
- Database can import your existing Ogg Vorbis and MP3 files.
- Playing -- Uses a standard media player (such as WinAmp, iTunes, or XMMS) to play your Ogg Vorbis and MP3 files.
- Home networking -- has an integrated web server so you can play your files from another machine on your home network.
- Requires NO external database software.
- Requires NO external web server
OggCarton is not designed for illegal distribution of music, nor is it particularly suited for doing so (it is not a "file-sharing" or peer-to-peer program and there is no net-wide file search capability). Ripping your own CDs for your own personal use is legal in the United States (and most other countries). Distributing the files to other people is not. As the good folks at Apple say, "Dont steal music." You dont want the karma, and you especially dont want the RIAAs lawyers knocking at your door.

KayBot is a bot written to guard IRC channels.
To install, follow next procedure:
./configure --prefix=/your/home/dir (probably)
make
make install
You will probably want to edit PREFIX/kaybot/etc/kaybot.conf to suit your
channel and bot needs. Then youll need to run utils/kbadduser
(where is the path to PREFIX/kaybot/etc/passwd. After that just
run the kaybot binary and you should be good to go!
Enhancements:
- module.h Updated, some variables and setting functions added/updated.