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Open Source Hotspots

Posted by michael on from the freebie dept.

darthcamaro writes "Not that long ago it was a serious pain to get an 802.11b card to work on a Linux machine. [ed note: We love you Jean Tourrilhes!] Wi-Fi Planet has a story where they do an overview of a wad of open source Wi-Fi projects. Did you realize that you don't even need to spend the dough for an Access Point? - standard Linux routing is enough to create your own access point, with a few other tools like Public IP's Zone CD or the Less Networks Hotspot server, you can freely create a hotspot and manage it all in minutes. I guess all this means that both Wi-Fi and open source are literally 'everywhere'."

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  1. fp by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

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  2. FP by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

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  3. FFP by IAmAMacOSXAddict · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    First First Post

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    1. Re:FFP by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

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  5. Re:talk about open source! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    My mom's dead, you insensitive clod.