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  1. Re:For the masses? by Daengbo · · Score: 1 · on Personal File Server For The Masses

    That is the developers' release pages. They expect that you already know. Try Mitel Networks for the marketized version of everything.

  2. Mitel Networks doing some cool stuff by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative · on Finally: PC-to-Phone Calling from Linux
    Mitel Networks is doing some cool stuff with VoIP and Linux. They're not very good at marketing it, but still, check it out. Especially the tie-ins with their SME Server product (Linux-based small office server - see E-Smith's old site.

    Unfortunately, most of it is commercial ... although the SME server software is open source and available from the E-Smith developer site. Still, their voip stuff looks standards-based, so hopefully it interoperates with other stuff.

  3. Re:They shouldnt let anyone download by rjch · · Score: 1 · on Mandrake Appealing to Community, Again
    They should just say "Only club members can Download Linux Mandrake, Join the Club or Leave the site"
    The problem here, of course, is that it is contrary to the GPL licensing terms for them to do this. They must make the source of Mandrake available to anyone who wants it for no more than their distribution costs.

    I think Mandrake (unfortunately) may have reached it's expiry date unless they can find some way of providing value added services to make cash from, same as RedHat. Restrict their automatic update servers to those who have club memberships.

    If you want a good example of a company that has made a good run of this, check out SME Server. Given, this product is a server product, so value added services are more numerous and worth more, but it's an example worth looking at - release a GPL version with the basic working tools, and release an advanced version with many additional features and services. Provided those services have been written by the company, there would be no conflict with the GPL.
  4. Re:What's wrong with education? by flogger · · Score: 4, Interesting · on Microsoft vs. Northwest Schools Part II

    This is actually very true. I work in a high school, and software knowledge problems are from the educators 95% of the time. I have 10 computers in my classroom, and I installed OpenOffice on them when I was denied an office suite due to $$ restrictions. The students picked it up in 10 minutes (as an aside: Open Office also works great for opening corrupted powerpoint and excel files that office 2000 won't). During the summers, I train teachers how to use software, and it is FRUSTRATING when an adult looks at you as if you have strange jungle disease when you explain how to copy and paste.

    Can schools make the switch to Linux? Yup, Doing it now. No need for MS Proxy or Border manager when E-Smith(the commercial site) offers a great solution.

    Open Office / Star Office is the best thing that has come down the pipe for schools. If a student can learn to use these less expensive/just as robust software packages productively, then they can switch to using what ever MS office product that they may need to use on the job once they get out in the "Real World." What is wrong with education? I don't think computer illiterate teachers are the problem, but it fixing that certainly doesn't hurt.

  5. e-smith by gwjc · · Score: 1 · on What's A Good Starter Linux distro?

    e-smith makes a great distro for those who need a simple, easy to install Linux.

  6. e-smith: a better business model, and GPL too by srl · · Score: 1 · on Death of a Rebel
    Which is why e-smith's business model is much better. They distribute a GPLed Linux-based OS on a CD that will turn your commodity Pentium into a network appliance. It's really cool, and very easy to install and configure. The internals are easy to customize if you like to hack things. I had my system up and running with a 3rd-party streaming MP3 plugin within an hour of popping in the CD.

    e-smith gives away their distro, making money by providing support and services for the businesses who use it. They also support community development and re-sellers; check out their community site at http://www.e-smith.org. They'll do a lot better by selling services than by trying to sell hardware. Everyone's got a random P-100 lying around to run their software on.

    Disclaimer: I'm not affiliated with e-smith; I'm just a satisfied user. But they are very cool.

  7. Health Dept of WA by Sea-Wolf · · Score: 2 · on Electronic Medical Records Software for Unix?

    The Health Department of Western Australia has built a custom system for their Rural hospitals called HCARe (bizzare caps on purpose) that they run on SCO OpenServer and which is probably Linux compatible. I'm uncertain if they decided to build it themselves because they were unable to find a suitable OpenSource program or simply because of politics, however the system has the advantage of being able to be rebuilt on demand according to indivdual needs. The metro hospitals use commercial systems such as Oracle that have been bought 'off the shelf' and then customised. As for your Linux web server, have a look at E-Smith Linux , it's so easy to setup and administrate it's criminal. :) Hope this helps, SeaWolf

  8. Don't Ignore this! by pasti · · Score: 1 · on Linux Beats Win2000 In SpecWeb 2000

    Who was talking about setting up servers? Just to keep up the heat, why not look at this: E-Smith server-out-of-a-box. Apache, SMTP&POP3, DHCP, DNS, FTP, SQUID, web-based configuration & administration, dial-on-demand, masquerading and perhaps something more. It comes on a single cd which installs on your machine in MINUTES (so they tell me). Beat that, freak!

    Admit it, linux is far more easily administered remotely than any Windows box. With ssh it's even secure. Not to mention the things you can do with little scripting with perl/php/whatever plus apache for instance. Web controlled ppp dialup, fetchmail retrieval, whatever you wish. Damned, you probably could build a web-based front end to build and install your KERNEL for that matter.

    Now THAT'S freedom.