[ILUG] Two cool Linux applications

[A.J.Delaney at brighton.ac.uk]

Hey all,
	Sorry for the cross posting, however today I used two applications that
saved me lots of time and I thought I'd pimp them.

The first is firestarter (http://www.fs-security.com/) which claims to
be a firewall but is a lot more helpful than that.  It has a
wizard/druid that in 3 or 4 simple steps will set your machine up as a
gateway and dhcp server for a private network.  Its firewall
capabilities are reminiscent of ZoneAlarm, a Windows application that
pops up and informs you when a strange connection is received by your
machine.  I've been using firestarter for a day for it's "Internet
connection sharing" functionality.  It rocks.

The second is buildbot (http://buildbot.sourceforge.net/) is a
developers tool that takes Python scripts describing a build procedure
and builds your product on many platforms.  It's huge advantage is that
it does everything over http and there's little client side
configuration.  This means that I set up my private network (a build
farm) with firestarter and it runs using a very restricted http access.
Buildbot supports checkouts from CVS, Subversion and (my favourite) GNU
Arch repositories.

Well, there you go.  Have fun.
-- 
Aidan Delaney
Lecturer,
School of Computing, Mathematics and Information Sciences,
University of Brighton.
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