What is FUD?

FUD is an acronym for Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt. It is an immoral way of promoting a product by introducing one of these elements into people’s thinking about a competitor and is frequently used by proprietary software vendors to denigrate the merits of free and open source software. When ethical business people want to sell…

How do you get LTSP to work on a vserver?

This is a very brief guide to setting up a vserver (http://linux-vserver.org) to run LTSP on. Getting DHCP to work Requires NET_RAW Getting NFS to work A user space NFS server is required. “nfs-user-server” or “unfs3” should work fine. We are using unfs3. See the respective documentation for the differences between the two. Local Devices…

Why are you doing this?

As members of the co-operative, we members may all have different motives for contributing to this project, but they mainly fall under the following headings: Helping our community; Advocates for Linux and Free and Open Source Software (FOSS); Promoting high speed networks for everyone; Local media distribution (e.g. of creative artwork). Here’s one perspective on…

What is Bristol Wireless?

Bristol Wireless is a volunteer-run community co-operative established in 2002 to supply open source ICT to businesses, the community and voluntary sector and the general public. It was initially fuelled by the energy and enthusiasm of some under-employed techs in East Bristol with the aim of improving society, particularly its less fortunate sections, by providing…