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Telnet server in 4MLinux
4MLinux has the following set of its main servers: FTP, HTTP, SSH (with SFTP), and Telnet. This post aims to describe shortly how to use the Telnet server. 4MLinux includes a Busybox applet as its...
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HTTP server in 4MLinux
4MLinux has the following set of its main servers: FTP, HTTP, SSH, and Telnet. This post aims to describe shortly how to use the HTTP server. 4MLinux includes a Busybox applet as its HTTP server...
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4MLinux Firewall
This is a short guide on how to use 4MLinux Firewall (based on iptables), which is available in 4MLinux Server Edition, 4MLinux Allinone Edition, and TheSSS. 1) Open your terminal and execute the...
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Monitoring software
4MLinux includes a wide set of small monitoring programs using the ncurses interface. These are powerful tools, which are especially useful as a part of your server software. This is why they are...
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Proxy server
This is a short guide on how to use a proxy server (Polipo with Tor), which is available in 4MLinux Server Edition, 4MLinux Allinone Edition, and TheSSS. 1) Open your terminal and execute the 'proxy'...
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TheSSS
TheSSS (The Smallest Server Suite) is a lightweight server suite distributed as a live CD. It is designed for system administrators who need a small (liveCD is about 30MB in size) set of server...
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Opera (web browser).
Opera is one of the five downloadable extensions, which are available in each version of 4MLinux (the other ones are: CalmAV, Partition Wizard, SMPlayer, and LibreOffice). Once installed, Opera becomes...
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SMPlayer with SMTube
SMPlayer is one of the five downloadable extensions, which are available in 4MLinux 6.0 and later (the other ones are: CalmAV, Opera, Partition Wizard, and LibreOffice).1) Choose SMPlayer from the...
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BakAndImgCD
BakAndImgCDis a very small (about 20 MB in size) Linux-based operating system, which has been designed to perform the following two tasks: data backup (the supported filesystems are: btrfs, ext2, ext3,...
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Mobile Broadband Modems
Are you using your mobile phone or USBÂ modem to connect to the Internet? Let's try to configure it now!1) Attach your mobile phone or USB modem (these pictures were taken in my kitchen :-)2) Select...
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Abuse, Doom, Quake...
4MLinux Game Edition includes ready-to-use pieces of software (game ports) needed to play Doom and other classic "shoot'em up" games, but so called wads (or their equivalents) must be downloaded...
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The FOX Toolkit
The basic version of 4MLinux is less than 45 MB in size. This is possible because 4MLinux Desktop is based on a very light window manager (JWM) with a set of relatively small applications from The FOX...
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4MLinux has its unique software development schema. I will try to explain this, taking 4MLinux 6.1 as an example.1) 4MLinux 6.1 Core. It has only the Linux kernel image, sysinit script, BusyBox, and...
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Ripping of audio CDs
This post describes the way of ripping of audio CDs in 4MLinux Media Edition (or 4MLinux Allinone Edition). Insert your audio CD please ;-)1) Select Ripper Script from the Multimedia Menu:2) You're...
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The KISS principle in 4MLinux Server
Mini Server (both in 4MLinux and TheSSS) tries to follow the KISS (Keep It Simple Stupid) principle. I will try to show this taking the HTTP server in 4MLinux 7.0 Server Edition as an example. The...
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Data recovery from partitions with bad blocks
4MLinux Rescue Edition (or 4MLinux Allinone Edition) can help you to recover data from partitions with read errors (bad blocks).1. Choose Partition Wizard from the Maintenance Menu:2. 4MLinux will...
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Very strange update procedure
As it was honestly stated here, 4MLinux does many things in its very special way. For example, you can force update of some applications by.... removing their executables from your system. Let's take...
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Alien packages (deb, rpm, txz)
4MLinux (even in its basic version) is able to open huge amount of various archives (gzip, bzip2, xz, 7z, arc, zip, rar, ISO, ...). You can also view/open/install "alien" (i.e. not 4MLinux native)...
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P2P networking
4MLinux 8.0 (and later) supports peer-to-peer networking via rTorrent (powerfull BitTorrent client) and eMule (famous P2P file sharing application).1) Torrents. You can use any of the file managers,...
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Java Runtime Environment
4MLinux 8.1 (and later) supports a fully automatic installation of the vanilla version of Java Runtime Environment. This is one of so called "downloadable extensions" (i.e. optional software in...
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