LavaLite Remote Tool

I added the remote tool to the new build of LAVALite I am going to upload.

Now users of LAVALite can use my desktop remote tool I posted earlier upon install or via livecd. Once ran, they can select a live session to a technician. The technician can then remotely login to the desktop to help out.

The remote service is a paid service I am developing here at my company Ansotech.

The remote tool I built and is installable on Ubuntu, Fedora and OpenSuse.

I am planning on bundling the remote service backend and front end so internal ITs or corporations have a easy remote solution for their linux clients.

The server backend piece runs on XP, 2000, 2003, Vista, Windows 7, MAC and of course Linux. This piece is the software that runs on a technicians pc.

Let me know if anyone out there would like information on this product as it is a new product we are going to offer and obviously are looking for feedback as well as users willing to try out the initial offerings of the product.

Not Ubuntu related

But it is open source related.

I built a backup utility for our datacenter based on rsync. It used rsync in the background but gives our non unix technicians the ability to backup shares, folders with rsync on windows without needing us unix gurus to setup the backups.

It has all the rsync features, plus scheduler and can build the UI options into a script so you can have a nice icon to just double click on to do the backups whenever and/or throw them into your own schedules uses the scheduler for windows.

here's a video of it I posted on youtube.

Xubuntu 9.10

Yeah! Been pretty busy the last two months with work, web development, drupal, server management - I have not had time to jump on and blog about the cool things I have been doing. But since the new release of ubuntu is out in the wild, I decided to download it and begin working with it in a VM and start retooling it for a new LAVA and LAVALite release.

Lately I have been working on some projects for clients with RAILO, drupal and cakephp. All web based applications but it's been amazing to build some apps that look and run just like desktop apps all built on opensource software. I have been using LAVA based on Ubuntu 8.04 with apache, tomcat, cakephp, drupal and RAILO depending on the project. I have grown to really enjoy coding this way. I started about 8 years ago as a COLDFUSION programmer and started to write smaller apps with RAILO when it became opensource. Now with a UBUNTU stack and I throw in either RAILO, drupal or cakephp and volia instant backend for some really robust apps. Having ubuntu as a solid test environment really makes development so much faster cause I can make a custom cd for the client which has all the software and runtimes necessary to completely install a new instance of the application within their environment without the need for an apache guru or a mysql guru, etc.

Throw in some Yahoo UI, EXTJS or Jquery and your apps look awesome.

I am really excited about this new version of ubuntu - supposed to be alot faster. I played with the betas but now to see the true release.

Will post something once I have tested out a couple builds.

New build on it's way

Been awhile since i built a new version of lavalite and lava. I've been playing with the new build of ubuntu and xubuntu. Each time there is a new version, I like to reformat my test pc and run my scripts and see if there is any way to improve upon the great work Canonical does with ubuntu and xubuntu. The process takes some time as I like to see if there are any new programs in synaptic I might want to include as well as all the tweaks I normally include that may or may not be necessary with the new builds.

I'm almost ready and will probably have a new version of the CD, Plus and dev out by early next week.

Please let me know if there is anything you have seen which you think might make for a better experience.

Along with the normal changes, I'm thinking of changing the default mediaplayer from vlc to mplayer. It seems to run wmv files better.

LAVALite and UNetBootin

So I have been using UnetBootin lately to build USB bootable OS sticks. I'll take a version of LAVA or even a PE Bart disk and run it thru Unetbootin and voila - instant USB Linux or rescure disk. I've used it to clean viruses off desktops, recuse files from pcs which will no longer boot, even do complete installs off the stick. Plus I sometimes use it as my desktop when I don't have my pc - Just go to someone's pc, boot up and you are working.

For more info - check out their homepage.

New Site is online

My new lavalinux site is up and running. Latest builds and news - will be updating the content over this holiday weekend. Hope you like it. I have both lavalinx and lavalite available online.

http://www.lavalinux.com

ISO Uploaded

Final builds of LavaLite have been uploaded

CD Version: For Corporate PCs or Computers with only CD

http://office.ansotech.com/share/LavaLite/lavalite-cd4.6.iso -

PLUS DVD Version: Has everything the CD version with extra apps for home users - has games, video editing, multimedia, etc

http://office.ansotech.com/share/LavaLite/lavalite-plus4.6.iso

DEV DVD Version: Has everything in CD and Plus with development tools and game engines like Panda3d

http://office.ansotech.com/share/LavaLite/lavalite-dev4.6.iso