Rubiqa restructures development server disk space.

2013-05-05: Rubiqa was running out of disk space on their virtual development server and came to City Linux for assistance at the end of April. It was one of those time when a company rich with IT skills never the less needed experienced systems administration support to resolve a particular issue.

Although Clifford and Jeremy Swift of Rubiqa have never met Jeremy felt confident that by granting remote access to his server he could have the issue resolved swiftly, safely and with a minimum of cost.

Linux support in the cloud.

2013-02-14: Do you have a Linux server in the cloud, perhaps with 1and1 or Rackspace? City Linux can provide expert, cost effective Linux server support and management anywhere in the world.

"I work with a very restricted client base which means you know exactly who is accessing your server and the level of care and expertise you can expect." - Clifford W Fulford. MD City Linux.

City Linux training pages moved to new site.

2013-02-04: The City Linux training pages have been moved to new site.

To meet the increased demand for IT systems training the City Linux training web pages have been further developed and moved to a separate site www.training4linux.co.uk

Pork Farms choose City LinUX to provide Linux training.

2012-11-21: Pork Farms is running a 6 day LinUX systems administration training course on Ubuntu for the company's IT administrators. Covering a wide range of topics and focusing on command line control and configuration using a Ubuntu LinUX distribution the course is being delivered by Clifford W Fulford of City LinUX.

City LinUX & Fulford Consulting migrate to Slackware 14.0.

2012-10-15: City LinUX the LinUX support service and Fulford Consulting ( the systems integration, administration, security and systems support company) upgraded their systems to Slackware 14.0 today.

This was one of the simplest, most trouble free OS upgrades I've done in the last 25 years. The Slackware 14.0 packages were downloaded with "wget" and after being careful to upgrade the basic system libraries and package tools first , I then ran the command

"upgradepkg --install-new <local path>/slackware/*/*.t?z".

The whole thing was done while still in multi-user mode and only involved a few minutes downtime in the early hours to reconfigure the web servers. Another triumph for the elegance and simplicity of Patrick Volkerding's Slackware distribution.

Clifford W Fulford

QSL take out support contract on CentOS system at 1&1.

2012-03-28: After Clifford Fulford helped them to recover from a major systems failure, QSL decided to take out a support contract with City LinUX for their CentOS LinUX system co-hosted at 1&1 's data centre in Germany.

QSL will receive hands on remote systems administration and security advice for their CentOS LinUX systems without incurring the expense of employing a full-time systems administrator.

"To say we had a server crisis would be an understatement. But Clifford Fulford restored not only all of our data but our sanity too! Outstanding personal service. "

Gordon Hosie

LibreOffice Support on Windows and LinUX.

2011-11-05: Fulford Consulting Ltd. is now offering support and consultancy services on the sophisticated and powerful integrated office application LibreOffice .

LibreOffice which is available for Windows, Macintosh, UNIX and LinUX platforms, is a the successor to StarOffice and OpenOffice productivity suites. LibreOffice provides six integrated applications which are able to use the fully open internationally agreed file formats.

Clifford Fulford , systems consultant with Fulford Consulting , (trading as CityLinux) can help you install LibreOffice from downloads or CD and provide ongoing configuration and support.

" I can help you migrate from your current office applications to LibreOffice to reduce your IT costs now and give you a solid base from which to expand without the burden of additional licensing costs when the economy picks up. "

Clifford Fulford
IT Consultant

Standout - RedHat 5.5 development server

2010-12-09: The creative communications agency Standout went with RedHat 5.5 on Dell kit to build a development server at their Leicestershire head quarters this December.

Clifford Fulford , systems consultant with Fulford Consulting , (trading as CityLinux) was brought in by Somerbys IT to configure a LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP) development server under RedHat 5.5. Webmin was installed to assist in the management of the system. Apache Subversion (SVN) was also included to provide development version control.

"Its been a while since I've had a request for RedHat in a fully open source environment, but apart from some hiccups with the Dell default disk partitioning schema, the installation went very well
RedHat gives clients the confidence of having a professional support contract with large international vendor"

Clifford Fulford
IT Consultant

AH Allen move to Slackware 13

2010-07-28: A H Allen Health & safety consultants and experts in asbestos sampling and surveys migrated from Fedora Core Linux to Slackware.

A H Allen decided to opt for the the simplicity and elegance of Slackware over the bells and whistles of Fedora for their latest upgrade. Slackware's longevity, stability and ease of server administration provided a good fit with the need to accommodate Windows 7 PCs authentication and file sharing with Samba.

"I think Slackware was a good choice. The transition was was very smooth.
Slackware provides a very simple and elegant software tools that are familiar to UNIX administrators around the world.

Clifford Fulford
IT Consultant

TANC move to Slackware 12

2008-07-28: TANC the voluntary sector technical advice consultants in Nottingham have upgraded their Dell LinUX server to Slackware.

City Linux were called in when the SATA disks on the server failed and TANC were facing the prospect of needing to pay for a new server and a fresh operating system installation.

"I was able to reconfigure another machine with an external disk as a temporary server. This gave us a breathing space to find out just what was wrong.
Replacing the disks with a higher capacity Samsung devices and installing Slackware as the operating system gave the server a new lease of life and got TANC back up and running for a fraction of the price other companies had quoted."

Clifford Fulford
IT Consultant

AH Allen migrate to Linux.

2006-03-28: A H Allen Health & safety consultants and experts in asbestos sampling and surveys migrated to Fedora Core Linux today.

Moving to Linux at their head office in Hessle, East Yorkshire is allowing them to substantially reduce the costs of licensing and support on their file server.

"For a small company, the cost of replacing our ageing Windows NT4 server was so high, it was out of our reach. City Linux's suggestion of a free Linux distribution saved us so much in license fees that it made the project feasible again."

James Corner
Asbestos Survey Team Manager

Nottingham City migrate to Linux.

2006-01-01: Nottingham City Council's Environment & Public Protection Services migrate from SCO UNIX to a Red Hat Linux high availability cluster. The system is used to provide a stable, robust platform on which to run the Civica APP / Flare data base system which is used for Trading Standards, Public Health, Pest Control, Pollution, Dog Warden, and Anti-Social Behaviour services.

Moving to Linux has given Nottingham immediate savings in licensing and support costs.

Fulford Consulting server migration.

2006-08-06: Fulford Consulting's new LinUX server went live today.

The low spec server (1.4MHz Celeron processor, 256MB RAM) provides Fulford Consulting Ltd. with network and file services for the office network and supports 4 active web sites including the West Bridgford Community Network site which receives 5,000 visits (16,000 hits) per month.