v1.1.8g, 16 February 2003
Abstract
This document describes how to configure Linux for Belgian users and lists Linux user groups, businesses and other resources in Belgium.
Table of Contents
Since there was no information anywhere on the net for Belgian Linux users around 1998, we started to collect stuff that we thought could be important. This HOWTO aims to be the definitive list of all Belgian-related Linux information. If you think not, you have no excuse to complain and certainly not to not contribute. ;)
If you need to know more about the Linux Documentation Project or
about Linux HOWTO's, feel free to contact the supervisor Tim Bynum
<linux-howto@sunsite.unc.edu>.
Tim Bynum will post the listing to several national and international newsgroups on a monthly basis. In addition, the Belgian HOWTO can be found on the World Wide Web at http://dag.wieers.com/howto/. New versions of the Belgian HOWTO are always placed at this site first, so please be sure to check if the copy you are reading is still up to date!
This document is currently translated in 3 languages (English, Dutch and French), we're trying to keep all three of them in sync, but the English version is the source-document!
The English and Dutch version are maintained by Dag Wieërs
<dag@wieers.com> and is found at:
http://dag.wieers.com/howto/.
The French version is maintained by Dany Vanderroost
<danyv@euronet.be> and is found at:
http://club.euronet.be/dany.vanderroost/howto.html.
A few people mailed us their suggestions and improvements, thanks go to:
Wim Vandeputte <wvdputte@reptile.rug.ac.be>
Pablo Saratxaga <srtxg@ping.be>
Christophe Lambin <clambin@skynet.be>
Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Herman Bruyninckx <Herman.Bruyninckx@mech.kuleuven.ac.be>
Many thanks go to Ivo Clarysse <soggie@iguana.be>
who started something similar earlier (LinBel)
and his project helped us a lot to get this document online.
As you might have heard, Belgium also has its problem with the Linux.be domain. Similar to the Linux.nl case. Around March 1999, someone tricked the DNS administration about the trademark 'Linux' in Belgium by using 'Linux' as a commercial representation of the company ('uithangbord') which was according to the rules of the DNS administration at that time. The company in fact was one that sold motor-parts and the registration was done with a fake fax containing a penguin.
It is sad that the person who registered the Linux.be-domain name, did this behind the back of some Open Source volunteers who were planning to register a not-for-profit organisation to hold the domain name to prevent any abuse.
Afterwards there were several meetings with this person to work out an agreement so that the domain was not used for commercial purposes and handed over to a neutral organisation. But after several attempts it was very clear that the owner wanted full control over the domain, which he later emphasized by 'handing it over' to his own not-for-profit organisation. He stated several times he wanted to keep the right to add advertissements to the website, but wouldn't mind that volunteers added content to the site (that was empty at the time). After this, no one was willing to work voluntarily for the content of the site. Sadly he managed to get some people volunteer for it after all.
If some information seems to be wrong, deceptive or missing, we'd appreciate if you mailed us the improvements. Since we're just human this document isn't bug-free, but your contribution can and will make a difference.
To add yourself to the Linux user groups or businesses, collect all necessary information and mail it to us.
This document, Belgian HOWTO, is copyrighted (c) 1998 - 2002 by Dag Wieërs. Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.1 published by the Free Software Foundation; with the Invariant Sections being "New versions of this document", "Contributions", "Feedback" and "Copyright information" with no Front-Cover Texts and with no Back-Cover Texts.
A copy of the license is available at http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html.
Trademarks are owned by their owners.
Although the information given in this document is believed to be correct, the author will accept no liability for the content of this document. Use the tips and examples given herein at your own risk.
There are some things I'm planning to add to this document, if you're interested be sure you're reading the most current version of this document. (This todo-list is only a reminder to myself, it is not in the translated documents!)
Add more information about ADSL
Update the locale-section, preferably link to a related document.
Linux provides 2 ways to set up your keyboard. At the console you can use loadkeys and under XFree86 you can use xmodmap.
To use the keytable for a Belgian keyboard you can use
loadkeys be2-latin1 or
loadkeys be-latin1.
The only difference between the two is that be2-latin1 adds support
for twosuperior and threesuperior (keycode 41) and grave (keycode 43).
Usually loadkeys is started at boottime from the
scripts located somewhere in
/etc/rc.d.
Different distributions handle it differently. Most distributions
have a simple program (like kbdconfig in Red Hat,
install-keymap in Debian or
yast in SuSE) to change the behaviour of these
scripts.
To set your keyboard properly under XFree86
you've got more choices.
By running Xconfigurator (or a similar program) a
config-file for XFree86 is created (with
some standard behaviour). This file is called
XF86Config-4 or XF86Config
and is usually located in
/etc/X11 or
/etc
Make sure (and change otherwise) that something similar to this is given under the Keyboard Section.
Section "Keyboard" Protocol "Standard" XkbRules "xfree86" XkbModel "pc101" XkbLayout "be" EndSection
If you own a 'microsoft' keyboard (or the less-known penguin keyboards ;p) you can enable those extra 3 keys by changing the "pc101" into "pc104". (I use the extra keys as meta-keys in my windowmanager so some shortcuts don't conflict with the internal ones of my wm).
To get the AltGr key to work under XFree86 simply add in the Keyboard Section:
RightAlt ModeShift
Some people prefer to use a 'Compose'-key to enter their special characters, like:
Compose+' e => é Compose+/ o => ø Compose+c , => ç Compose+c o => © Compose+s s => ß
For XFree86, the solution is to enter xmodmap -e "keycode xx = Multi_key"
or xmodmap -e "keysym yy = Multi_key"
where 'xx' is the keycode or 'yy' the keysym of the key you choose to
be the 'Compose'-key.
(use xev to get these values)
Alternatively you can add keycode xx = Multi_key
to your ~/.xmodmaprc. This way it happens automagically.
For the console, you could do something similar with loadkeys.
echo "altgr keycode 52 = Compose" | loadkeys to use
AltGr+/ as a 'Compose'-key.
Some applications have to be compiled as 8-bit clean to work well with the European characterset. Others like to be told in advance.
You can load the ISO-8859-1 font by typing the following in console:
setfont lat1u-16.psf mapscrn trivial echo -ne '\033(K'
To be able to use ë, è, é or ç in console,
you might want to add these to your ~/.inputrc:
set meta-flag on set convert-meta off set output-meta on
(This must be done for every user, if you want this to be default for
all users you can either add this file to
/etc/skel/ or you could add
these lines to /etc/inputrc and add the
following to /etc/bashrc,
export INPUTRC=/etc/inputrc)
This is only useful to programs that use readline (like bash)
Also set the following environment variables:
LC_CTYPE=iso-8859-1 SYSFONT=lat1u-16.psf SYSTERM=linux
Since Europe had to invent a new character, the Euro, there's a new standard. It's called ISO-8859-15 (aka Latin-9 or Latin-0). To add support you need both a new font and new keymaps. This is part of every major distribution nowadays, if you have an older distributions you probably need a newer console-tools package.
There's more information in the Euro Character Support mini HOWTO
Since Belgium is located in the Central European Time zone (aka MET)
which (in the winter) is equivalent to the Greenwhich Mean Time plus 1
(GMT+1), you can simply link
/usr/lib/zoneinfo/localtime/MET to
/etc/localtime symbolicly like:
ln -sf /usr/lib/zoneinfo/MET /etc/localtime
or
ln -sf /usr/lib/zoneinfo/Europe/Brussels /etc/localtime
This automagically sets Daylight Savings (which is GMT+2 in the
summer).
Different distributions have different paths,
zoneinfo can be located in
/usr/share or such...
Red Hat uses a tool called timeconfig, SuSE uses yast
To change the CMOS clock and then synchronize the system time with the CMOS clock, do something like this:
hwclock --set --date="Feb 25 03:38" clock -u -s
If your clock is set to local time (which is discouraged but if you also run broken OS's, you must), you can do:
hwclock --set --date="Feb 25 04:38" clock -s
[Noticed the 1 hour difference ? ;p]
If your computer has Internet-access you can use NTP (Network Time Protocol) to keep your system clock in sync. One way of doing this is by starting ntpdate from cron by adding
05 0 * * * root /usr/sbin/ntpdate -s ntp.belnet.be > /dev/null 2>&1
to your /etc/crontab. Check the ISP-information below to see if your ISP has a NTP-server available.
Not much programs support locale yet, if you want to know more about locale or how to write your own programs to support it, check: [put the damn url here ;p]
Be aware that locale makes it harder to resolve problems as less people can help you !! You might understand a problem when it's in technical English, but what if it's translated in some obscure Dutch ?
To enable support for the Dutch locale in Belgium on a system with locale support you just have to set the following environment variables:
LANG=nl LANGUAGE=nl_BE
Try nl_BE.ISO_8859-1 if nl_BE does not work.
If you want French locale support in Belgium, set the following environment variabels:
LANG=fr LANGUAGE=fr_BE
Try fr_BE.ISO_8859-1 if fr_BE does not work.
If you want instead German locale support in Belgium, set the following environment variabels:
LANG=de LANGUAGE=de_BE
Try de_BE.ISO_8859-1 if de_BE does not work.
For Walloon locale support you can find files and information at: http://chanae.stben.be/linux/locales/walon/. To use it set:
LANG=wa LANGUAGE=wa_BE:fr_BE
Try wa_BE.ISO_8859-1 if wa_BE does not work.
These options add support for the Belgian characterset and codepages. If you'd like to have these, compile a kernel with these options put on. They only apply to some filesystems (FAT-based, ISO9660, ...).
< > Codepage 850 (Europe) < > NLS ISO 8859-1 (Latin 1; Western European Languages) < > NLS ISO 8859-15 (Latin 9; Western European Languages with Euro)
Located in Filesystems > Native Language Support
If your kernel is a modular kernel that came with your distribution (=you never compiled a kernel before), then you might want to type:
insmod nls_cp850 insmod nls_iso8859_1 insmod nls_iso8859_15
Contributed by Dany Vanderroost <danyv@euronet.be>
Ispell is composed of different components: the main software and
one or more dictionaries. The default dictionary is
/usr/lib/ispell/english.hash. To override this default
you have 2 options. Either you can set the DICTIONARY-variable
or launch it with the "-d" option.
You can create custom dictionaries in your home-directory like
~/.ispell_english.
By default Ispell will not work with multiple dictionaries but the solution
is to work with the ~/.ispell_words file.
If you don't want to make multi instance with Ispell, You can build
~/.ispell_words with the words package by
cp /usr/dict/words ~/.ispell_words; chmod +w ~/.ispell_words.
To configure PPP correctly, you should check the PPP-HOWTO. I try to explain it briefly, but if you have any questions or problems, read the HOWTO very carefully.
To configure your modem, you can alter the initstring of your modem. To learn more about your modem, check Ask Mr. Modem.
If you have a winmodem you will probably not get it to work. More information about winmodems is at: http://linmodems.org/. Work is underway, but winmodems are not as good as real modems.
Now, you need to have the ppp-package installed (check this by typing
pppd --version), make sure you have a recent
one. Then you have to make sure you've got these files:
/usr/local/bin/ppp
#!/bin/sh case $1 in (on|start) TELEPHONE='555-1212' # The telephone number for the connection ACCOUNT='your_login' # The account name for logon (as in 'George Burns') PASSWORD='your_pass' # The password for this account (and 'Gracie Allen') INITSTRING='AT&F&C1&D2Z'# Modem initstring IPLOCAL=0.0.0.0 # Local IP address if known. Dynamic = 0.0.0.0 IPREMOTE=0.0.0.0 # Remote IP address if desired. Normally 0.0.0.0 DEVICE=/dev/ttyS1 # Serial Device com1=ttyS0, com2=ttyS1,... SPEED=57600 # 19200, 38400 or 57600 (don't try something different) export TELEPHONE ACCOUNT PASSWORD INITSTRING exec /usr/sbin/pppd $DEVICE $SPEED $IPLOCAL:$IPREMOTE \ user $ACCOUNT connect /etc/ppp/ppp-on-dialer ;; (off|stop) if [ -r /var/run/ppp0.pid ]; then kill -INT `cat /var/run/ppp0.pid` if [ ! "$?" = "0" ]; then rm -f /var/run/ppp0.pid echo "ERROR: Removed stale pid file" exit 1 fi exit 0 fi echo "ERROR: PPP link is not active on ppp0" exit 1 ;; (info|status) /usr/sbin/pppstats ;; (*) echo "Usage: ppp on|off|info|start|stop|status"; esac
/etc/ppp/ppp-on-dialer
#!/bin/sh exec /usr/sbin/chat -v \ REPORT CONNECTION \ REPORT CARRIER \ TIMEOUT 10 \ ABORT '\nBUSY\r' \ ABORT '\nNO ANSWER\r' \ ABORT '\nNO CARRIER\r' \ ABORT '\nNO DIALTONE\r' \ ABORT '\nRINGING\r\n\r\nRINGING\r' \ ABORT 'Invalid Login' \ ABORT 'Login incorrect' \ '' "\r$INITSTRING\r" \ 'OK-+++\c-OK' 'ATH0' \ TIMEOUT 45 \ OK "ATDT$TELEPHONE" \ CONNECT '\d\c' \ ogin:--ogin: "$ACCOUNT" \ ord: "$PASSWORD"
You can remove the -v once everything looks
normal.
The pppd command uses /etc/ppp/options to list
its options, change these options to whatever fits. These defaults
normally work in most cases.
asyncmap 20a0000 crtscts debug default-mru defaultroute detach escape 11,13,ff hide-password ipcp-accept-local ipcp-accept-remote lcp-echo-failure 4 lcp-echo-interval 400 lock modem mtu 1500 netmask 255.255.255.0 noipdefault passive #idle 300 #kdebug 0 #-vj
Once dialing in works like a charm, you can leave
debug out.
It is important to emphasize that every special character, thus every character that is not [a-ZA-Z0-9] and '_', should be escaped by preceding it with a '\'-character. Thus "e!b$l+" would become "e\!b\$l\+". Try it if you are having troubles !
If your ISP requires CHAP or PAP, you need one of these files with their proper username and password:
/etc/ppp/pap-secrets or /etc/ppp/chap-secrets
#client server secret IP your_login * your_pass *
To configure your nameservers, change
/etc/resolv.conf. If dialing in is succesful,
but you can't get it to connect to URL's:
this is probably the cause.
domain domain_of_your_isp nameserver your_primary_nameserver nameserver your_secondary_nameserver
Before you can run a (shell)script, it must be set executable. Be sure that you set the permissions so that other users cannot see the passwords stored in the files. If you want other users to be able to dial in, you might want to consider using sudo. You might want to do the following:
chmod u+rw og-rwx -R /etc/ppp chmod u+x /etc/ppp/ppp-on-dialer /usr/local/bin/ppp
Contributed by Christophe Lambin <clambin@skynet.be>
This section does not aim to be a definitive guide on ISDN for Linux. For a more detailed discussion on the topic, see Paul Slootman's ISDN4Linux HOWTO and ISDN4Linux-FAQ.
If you're using a 2.2 kernel, it's recommended to get an updated version of the ISDN code. You can retrieve it from CVS at ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/isdn4linux/. For more information, check: http://www.brisse.dk/site/linux/docs/isdn.htm
If you've recently purchased an Eicon Diva 2.0 PCI (eg, via Belgacom), there's a good chance you've actually got a Diva 2.01.In this case, you must get a version dated 1 July 1999 or later !
Once the ISDN is in place, you can start up the
driver. Eg: modprobe hisax type=11 protocol=2
Refer to the Readme's for the right parameters and values for your
card.
Next, you'll need the ISDN4Linux toolkit. You can retrieve the latest version of the toolkit at: ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/isdn4linux/
With the tools installed and configured, write a script to configure the interface, to be used for the ISDN connection. As always in Linux, there's no one correct way of doing this. I've put these in a script
/etc/rc.d/rc.isdn:
#!/bin/sh MSNREMOTE='555-1212' # Phone number of ISP MSNLOCAL='555-1313' # my number, without 0, with areacode ACCOUNT='george' # The account for logon (as 'George Burns') IPLOCAL=10.0.0.2 # my fixed IP (use 10.0.0.2 if no fixed) IPREMOTE=0.0.0.0 # IP number of ISP INTERFACE=ippp0 /sbin/modprobe hisax type=11 protocol=2 /sbin/isdnctrl verbose 3 system on /sbin/isdnctrl addif $IF /sbin/isdnctrl secure $IF on /sbin/isdnctrl addphone $IF out $MSNREMOTE /sbin/isdnctrl eaz $IF $MSNLOCAL /sbin/isdnctrl huptimeout $IF 300 /sbin/isdnctrl l2_prot $IF hdlc /sbin/isdnctrl l3_prot $IF trans /sbin/isdnctrl encap $IF syncppp /sbin/isdnctrl dialmode $IF auto /sbin/ifconfig $IF $IPLOCAL pointopoint $IPREMOTE -arp -broadcast /sbin/ipppd /dev/ippp0 user $ACCOUNT $IPLOCAL:$IPREMOTE
To start this at boot time, make it executable and append the
following to /etc/rc.d/rc.local:
if [ -x /etc/rc.d/rc.isdn ]; then . /etc/rc.d/rc.isdn fi
The ipppd command gets its parameters passed
through a file, /etc/ppp/ioptions:
-ac -bsdcomp debug defaultroute ipcp-accept-local ipcp-accept-remote mru 1524 mtu 1500 noipdefault -pc useifip -vj -vjccomp #idle 360 #persistent
Do NOT specify +pap or +chap in this file. This specifies the authentication that ipppd should use for an INCOMING client. If you were to use this to connect to your ISP, ipppd would wait for the ISP to authenticate itself using the specified protocol.
It is important to emphasize that every special character, thus every character that is not [a-ZA-Z0-9] and '_' should be escaped by preceding it with a '\'-character. Thus 'e!b$l+' would become 'e\!b\$l\+'. Try it if you are having troubles !
Finally, create /etc/ppp/ip-down.local to handle
the shutdown of the interface:
#!/bin/sh /sbin/ifconfig $1 down sleep 1 /sbin/ifconfig $1 10.0.0.2 pointopoint
This is to handle some problems with routes on shutdowns. Anyone know of a clean(er) solution ?
If your ISP uses PAP or CHAP, create a file
/etc/ppp/pap-secrets or
/etc/ppp/chap-secrets. Its format is:
#client server secret IP your_login * your_pass *
Not really related to ISDN, but a lot of people forget this step (too eager to try out all the stuff they typed in above ? :-)).
Anyway, you need to configure the DNS, by creating a file
/etc/resolv.conf:
domain your_domain_of_your_isp nameserver your_primary_nameserver nameserver your_secondary_nameserver
Before you can run a (shell)script, it must be set executable. Be sure that you set the permissions so that other users cannot see the passwords stored in the files. If you want other users to be able to dial in, you might want to consider using sudo. You might want to do the following:
chmod u+rw og-rwx -r /etc/ppp chmod u+x /etc/rc.d/rc.isdn /etc/ppp/ip.down-local /usr/local/bin/isdn
Finally, you can write a little wrapper to start and stop the ISDN connection. I've put this as /usr/local/bin/isdn:
#!/bin/bash case $1 in (on|start) /sbin/isdnctrl dial ippp0 ;; (off|stop) /sbin/isdnctrl hangup ippp0 ;; (info|status) /sbin/isdnctrl list ippp0 ;; (*) echo "Usage: isdn on|off|info|start|stop|status" esac
Then if /usr/local/bin is in
your PATH, you can easily dial in with
isdn on and hangup with
isdn off.
no official Linux support yet
text-based / PAP
noccp
62.112.0.7, 194.88.127.7
ntp.antw.online.be, ntp.brus.online.be, ntp.gent.online.be
no official Linux support yet
text-based
proxyarp
193.74.208.135, 193.74.208.65, 193.121.171.135
CHAP
194.119.232.3, 194.119.232.2
ntp.pi.be
PAP
defaultroute
195.238.2.21, 195.238.2.22
ntp.skynet.be
text-based ?
212.35.2.1, 212.35.2.2
ntp.tiscalinet.be
no official Linux support yet
PAP
194.7.1.4, 194.7.15.70
no official support yet
text-based / PAP
195.74.193.12, 194.134.0.12
no official Linux support yet
CHAP
212.233.1.34, 212.233.2.34
PAP
194.109.6.66, 194.109.9.99
ntp.xs4all.be
CHAP
212.8.180.122, 212.8.180.126
ntp.yucom.be
no official Linux support yet
DHCP was designed to make life easier, and most of the times it does ;) More information to set up your DHCP client can be found at: http://www.oswg.org/oswg-nightly/DHCP.html and a list of Frequently Asked Questions from the infamous document of John Wobus at http://www.dhcp.org/ which describes everything you need to know. Along with the information in the Cable-Modem HOWTO (http://www.oswg.org/oswg-nightly/Cable-Modem.html).
Lots of people want to connect a whole network to their cablemodem, that's not a problem. You'll need IP-Masquerading and make sure the interface (that speaks to the cablemodem) has the right MAC-address !! Another solution (in case of problems) is to reset your cablemodem.
http://pac.telenet.be:8080
export http_proxy="http://proxy.telenet.be:8080/"
ntp.telenet.be
no official support yet
time.chello.be
no official support yet
no official support yet
More information can be found in the User Group HOWTO A complete list of Linux User Groups is at: http://www.ssc.com/linux/glue/ and at: http://lugww.counter.li.org/
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Joan Lavrijs <joan@digibel.be>
Digibel (since 1995) uses its competence in Open Source software to deliver solutions, consultancy, development, remote administration, training and support with a strong focus on security. All our consultants have been using Linux since 1995 and have extensive Open Source experience.
We maintain the qmail-sql patch in which qmail gets integrated with MySQL or PostgreSQL databases. Our unique key product is the SUS (Security Update Service) in which we intensively manage the security of servers. Closely related to SUS are our high quality VPN/Firewall/Router-solutions. We also deliver virtually all kind of company-servers (file-,web-,fax-,mail-,name-,print-,database-,.. servers). We have acquired a special expertise with the Red Hat distributions.
Industriepark Zenneveld
Vaucampslaan 42
B-1654 Huizingen
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European Erasmus Business & Innovation Center
Joseph Wybranlaan 40
B-1070 Brussels
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Jan Van Harcourtlaan 7
B-3200 Aarschot
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Luikersteenweg 65
B-3500 Hasselt
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Hessenstraatje 20 loft 1.1
B-2000 Antwerp
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Korte Vuldersstraat 30
B-8000 Brugge
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Rue de Prague 61
B-1060 Brussels
Square Victoria Regina 1
B-1210 Brussels
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Sam Versluys <sam_versluys@be.ibm.com>
Cyriel Verschaevelaan 12
B-2980 Zoersel
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IPnG focuses on Open Source software development.
Grote Steenweg 91
B-2600 Berchem (Antwerp)
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Peter Dens <peter@kangaroot.net>
Borkelstraat 2/4
B-2900 Schoten
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Prins Albertstraat 35
B-8310 Brugge
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Jurgen Defurne <jurgen.defurne@pandora.be>
Vaartkom 11
B-3000 Leuven
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Peter Vandenabeele <peter.vandenabeele@mind.be>
Device drivers, porting to new platforms, development (fixed price), set-up of development environment, on-site support (outsourcing), architecture study and training.
Mind uses Open Source software (Linux, RTLinux, RTAI, eCos, Wonka, gcc, gdb, etc.) to set up basic infrastructure for new embedded systems based on various embedded processors: ARM, StrongARM, XScale, PowerPC, MIPS, x86, ...
Astridlaan 199
B-8310 Brugge
+32 (0)475 311 650
Maarten Loose <maarten.loose@minotaur-solutions.com>
Zwarte Zusterstraat 16
B-3000 Leuven
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+32 (0)16 650 497
Maarten Slaets <maarten.slaets@neolabs.be>
Rue des Palais 44/33
B-1030 Brussels
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+32 (0)2 218 89 73
Rue de l'autonomie 1
B-1070 Brussels
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Bischoppenhoflaan 289
B-2100 Antwerp
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Toon Knapen <toon@si-lab.com>
Knaptandstraat 96-98
B-9100 Sint-Niklaas
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Minerva Office Brussels
Minervastraat 14b
B-1930 Zaventem
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+32 (0)2 720 51 71
Martijn Smit <smit@stone-it.com>
Stone-IT is a 'one-stop' Linux provider for integrating business environments in which we offer: Linux Consulting, Linux Solutions, Linux Support and Linux Education.
Stone-IT offers high quality Linux expertise and can develop, test and implement Linux in several different business environments such as all kinds of servers (File-/Web-/Name-/Mail-/Print servers), as well as Clustering, VPN, Storage, Firewalls & Routers. Our support consists of Pro Active Monitoring, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Besides having trainers being a Red Hat Certified Engineer we offer Distribution Independent Education.
Zijpstraat 14
B-2570 Duffel
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Hulststraat 8
B-3290 Diest
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Rue de l'Aqueduc, 83
B-1050 Brussels
+32 (0)2 539 32 28
+32 (0)2 539 19 54
Renaud Dans <renaud.dans@theridion.com>
Lambermontlaan 148
B-1030 Brussels
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Rue E. Solvay 29 A
B-4000 Liège
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Bruno Mairlot <bruno@virgoplus.com>
By phone, email, or remote networked administration, inhouse, onsite
Installation, configuration, administration of Linux, internet connection, intranet developpment, firewalls, samba, netatalk, firewalls, proxys, DNS, web server (Apache), mod_perl, MySQL, Gui interface developpment (GTK+). We have acquired a special expertise with the Red Hat distributions.
Nederlandstalige Linux homepage _the_ Linux source for Flanders and the Netherlands
Nederlandstalige Linux Documentatie Project most Linux HOWTOs translated to Dutch
The most important collection of Linux information on the net. Please if you encounter erroneous information in one of them, do contact the author. Only that way it will be corrected and we all stand together ;)
As Dutch is less wide-spread, it is the least supported. But work is being done to resolve this ;) (and maybe *you* can help ?!?) French and German translations obviously are already taken care of.
A succesfull initiative is making progress, but there's still a lot to do. If you want to help, start translating and send it there. Check http://nl.linux.org/doc/HOWTO/.
French translations of HOWTO's can be found at: http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO/translations/fr/
German translations of HOWTO's can be found at: http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO/translations/de/
Mandrake
SuSE
The fastest medium to get support is IRC, but beware. Because IRC is rather anonymous it's also easy to deceive people.
On IRCnet there's a channel called #linux.be that is closely related to bcol and the Belgian Linux-scene. The channel is still small, but it surely will grow in time. To get help in English, there's only one place #linux.
Also Dalnet has a #linux.be channel.