LINUX-BIZ: Fishbone Solutions
Founded in 2004, Fishbone Solutions is a young and vibrant company headed by a dynamic management team committed to service and the belief in excellence. Together with a core group of committed and empowered employees, Fishbone is geared to providing the best and complete IT solutions and professional network services to small and medium corporate clients.
Our main areas of specialty are Computer Maintenance & Customized Application Development. As a one-stop solution provider, we supply all hardware, software and other IT services. We specialize in computer sales, design and installation of networks, system upgrades, repairs and maintenance. Our solutions are tailored to increase your company's productivity and efficiency. With over 25 years of combined experienced and expertise, our qualified system & network engineers are excellent at diagnosing and resolving complex problems that may arise at any time or day.
Fishbone Solutions uses Linux for the following functions:
- X-Windows:
- X-Windows terminal (display, keyboard, mouse -- applications run elsewhere)
- Network file server:
- Samba server for a network of PCs.
- NFS server for other PCs and Unix systems.
- File server for other types of clients.
- Print server:
- Print spooler using lpd (Unix, NFS clients)
- Print spooler using samba (PC clients)
- Desktop environment:
- Office productivity software:
- Document preparation with WordPerfect.
- Document preparation with Star Office.
- Image preparation with CorelDraw.
- Graphics prepared with GIMP.
- Backup services
- HTTP servers
- Databases
- Internet client software - WWW
- NetScape Navigator.
- Lynx.
- Other browsers.
- Internet client software - mail
- Pine.
- Netscape's mail client.
- Other mail clients.
- Network management:
- Internet or WAN router.
- Internet or WAN firewall.
- NIS server.
- Electronic mail server:
- SMTP server (sendmail, others).
- SMTP mail router.
- Network services provided to local users:
- HTTP (World-Wide Web) server or cache.
- ``Regular'' (user-ID and password required) ftp server.
- Accepts telnet connections.
- Accepts secure-shell (ssh) connections.
- Network services provided to remote users over dial-up or the Internet:
- HTTP (World-Wide Web) server or cache.
- Accepts telnet connections.
- Accepts secure-shell (ssh) connections.
- Services finger requests.
- Software development tools:
- C and/or C++
- Java
- Perl
- Tcl/Tk
- Bourne, Korn, C or another shell; using sed, awk, grep and similar tools.