Linux Internet Services for Macintosh and Windows Users








Linux Internet Servicesfor Macintosh and Windows Users


Linux is an excellent operating system for providing
services for many of the standard TCP/IP internet resources. These include
IP routing, electronic mail, USENET news, and the World Wide Web.


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Linux Internet Tools


There are many, many tools available for TCP/IP services for
your Macintosh and Windows clients. Most of them are includes in many of
the standard Linux distributions (I got almost all of the ones I use from
my original Slackware download).




Electronic Mail Services
To use email at all, you'll need a delivery program -- most people use
"sendmail", although a fair number also use "smail". There are other
programs available, too.Most of the Macintosh and Windows clients
will need a POP3 daemon; this daemon is part of the Slackware distribution
(and probably others). You may find a few IMAP clients, too -- I'm not
sure what IMAP requires from Linux. However, all of the tools for t he
Linux side should be available at your favorite sunsite mirror.




Internet News Services
Macintosh and Windows clients read news via the Network News Transport
Protocol, or NNTP. Linux can run an NNTP server -- look for patches to
InterNet News (INN) at your favorite mirror, or try using CNEWS+NNTP. I
don't actually use either one, but man y people do.




World-Wide Web
Your Macintosh and Windows users will almost certainly want to surf the
net using the World-Wide Web (WWW). The most widely used HTTP (the
protocol of the WWW) server is NCSA's HTTPD. It works fine under Linux.
CERN also has an HTTP server available. I have heard of others, too, but I
don't have any official info yet.




Other Services
Macintosh and Windows users can make use of many other services from
your Linux machine. There are clients to take advantage of FTP servers,
NTP (network time protocol) servers, archie services, finger services, and
many, many more...







Macintosh Internet Clients



Macintosh users have a wide range of high-quality Internet tools
available. I currently use a Windows machine for most of my Internet
access, but get pretty jealous when my wife fires up Newswatcher. Sometime
soon I'm getting a PowerMac and get all th ese tools on my desktop!




Electronic Mail
The most widely used Macintosh client for email is Eudora. Check out http://www.qualcomm.com/.
There are a number of other freeware/shareware clients, including
LeeMail, MailDrop, and POPMail.There are also some commercial
alternatives, including those from Intercon, Wollogong, and the
Versatilities package fr om Synergy.




USENET News
Newswatcher is one of the coolest news clients around. Period. Nuntius
is also a nice news reader. There are also some commercial readers, though
I'm not as familiar with them.




World-Wide Web
The Netscape browser is probably
the most widely used browser. There is also a version of NCSA
Mosaic for the Mac. Look for a commercial browser from Intercon, too, as well as other
companies.




Other Goodies
Peter Lewis has made a
Macintosh client for darn near any Internet related service around. You
can find all these programs and more at your favorite sumex-a im
mirror.







Windows Internet Clients



There are tons and tons of net clients for Windows users. While I
don't feel that the quality of many of the tools is as high as the Mac
tools, there are definitely more to choose from.




Electronic Mail
Eudora is a widely used mail
client. Other freeware/shareware clients include AtisMail, dMail,
Pronto/IP, WinElm, and Panda.There are MANY commercial
alternatives, including NetManage, FTP Software, Sun Microsystems, and
Beame & Whiteside. Several internet service providers, such as Netcom,
also have tools.




USENET News
WinVN, Trumpet, and NewsXPress are good Windows news clients. I've used
NewsXPress for a while now, and like it quite well. FreeAgent is a newer
client which looks nice, but I haven't had a chance to use myself. Also,
most commercial TCP/IP packages inclu de a news client.




World-Wide Web
Like the Mac, the Netscape and NCSA Mosaic browsers are available.
There are also some other commercial clients for Windows.




Other Tools
Lots of freeware/shareware Internet tools are available at your
favorite CICA
mirror, in the "winsock" directory.



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