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Openfiler Storage Management Software GPL'd
An anonymous reader writes "According to an article on The Inquirer, a UK based company has set up a GPL'd Linux-based storage management project called Openfiler, and donated its code to it. There are some nice screenshots showing off its features. Apparently, the code itself will be available for download on 30th of October. There is a press release on the company's website. The concept of special purpose Linux distributions for enterprise applications seems to be picking up in recent years, with release of products from SuSE, Smoothwall and the like."
I, for one, welcome our new openfiling overlords.
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this is a shame... with the viral nature of the GPL, this will stifle both independent and commercial development.
i am very good, thank you, and how about you? see mods, a little politeness goes a long way...mod up polite and courteous readers.
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GPL is great!!!!!!!!!!1 I like it!
"I, for one, welcome our new openfiling overlords."
Not if they have moderator points, you don't.
I first used GNU/Unix and C in 1978. I rediscovered GNU/Unix in 1987. I have administered GNU/BSD,
GNU/Ultrix, GNU/HP/UX, GNU/SunOS 4.x, GNU/SunOS 5.x and more flavours of GNU/Linux than I can
remember although I started out using GNU/SLS with kernel 0.9.x.
GNU/Linux has progressed so much in such a relatively short amount of time that I am in awe at
where it is today.
To GNU/gentoo. Then I remembered someone on cola mentioning a new distro named GNU/gentoo.
Once this stage has been reached GNU/gentoo is as easy to maintain as any GNU/Linux distro I know.
There is excellent documentation on the GNU/gentoo website. There is an excellent GNU/document
describing the USE variable which should be read before installing GNU/gentoo.
Apart from everything being compiled from source so that it is optimised for your hardware and the
USE variable to tailor the type of system you want, GNU/gentoo has another little gem. This is the
GNU/gentoo init system. It is based on the excellent GNU/SYSV init system but enhances it and
makes GNU/gentoo a class apart from any other GNU/*nix system I have administered. To be brief,
GNU/gentoo init GNU/scripts allow you to specify GNU/dependencies. There is no need to GNU/worry
about S script numbering as in GNU/SYSV or where GNU/you place the startup code in GNU/BSD type
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This seems to be just something you'd install on top of an already installed Red Hat system. Are they going to provide complete minimized disk images? I couldn't tell from a quick glance at the site and screenshots. Basically it's just a web interface to the tools already included in Red Hat (Samba, NFS, etc.). I was really hoping for some all-in-one optimized and minimized distribution that you'd install on a CF card and just reflashed to update it to a newer version. Then throw in a 3ware or SCSI RAID card, a bunch of disks, and be off. If this is just a web interface for Red Hat it isn't that interesting.
Looks sweet- doesn't look like it supports RAID management yet, but the other features are still killer.
æeee!
I commented on this before, WRT to bootable Linux CDROMS for games.
Linux is an excellent platform for whole-system applications, i.e. applications that take over an entire system. This used to be a bizarre concept but today is perfectly sensible: hardware is cheap and if dedicated boxes make sense for firewalls, routers, and web servers, why not for enterprise applications too?
With Linux, the application designers can create a turn-key package that delivers a complete solution. The application does not even have to be GPLd unless it is derived from existing GPLd work.
The missing piece used to be device detection, but Linux is so good at this today that it has redefined the concept of "platform", which used to be an operating system, but is now simply random hardware.
The example of a bootable application CD based on Linux is an extreme one that I think shows the potential. Don't laugh: this is how many firewalls work today.
Last year my company provided an industrial application (a Kiosk) as a bootable Linux CD (on which there were three Debian layers, one for the boot server, one for the kiosk servers, and one for the kiosk clients). The application has not broken down a single time.
It works.
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How is this redundant? It was the first occurance of this post in this article.
There is the issue of Iomegas and Linksys Nas porducts. I could swear that they have a very linux feel in their particular network options. I havent tried it, but I have heard the same is true of the SnapServer.
If they are appropriating GPL'd code we may have several projects allready done
This looks promising. There is not a lot of information on the site yet, but you can guess a lot from the screen shots. This is one to keep an eye on.
Apparently they plan to keep part of the software commercial by providing it means to access commercial code for some features.
To be successful in most common enterprise environments they will have to support MS AD for quota & user management. Perhaps that can be done through LDAP already.
They didn't mention backup options anywhere. They need to build NDMP support at least.
I joined two users too late.
I thought the OSS world was fervently against screenshots?
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Looks stupid to me.
" Openfiler will become a stand-alone Linux distribution."
Right now it is sitting on top RH. They are planning on a stand alone version, as soon as they incorporate all of the legitimate user requested features and squash any bugs.
If there is no interest, then they will move on to something else. If there is great interest, then they will continue developing.
Rome wasn't built in a day.
I realize this is offtopic, but bear with me.
The simpsons is a funny show. Well placed allusions to the simpsons can also be funny. However, every other thread I read has an allusion to the same stupid quote. Sometimes, the quote is well placed. For example, in this poll . However, most of the time it is just awkward and stupid. By saying "I, for one, welcome our new FreeBSD overlords" or "I, for one, welcome our new geneticly-engineered-to-be-rich-in-beta-carotine corn overlords," both the origanol quote and well placed references to it lose value.
We should not mod these posts as funny unless they really are. Think of the consequences. Think of the children! Would it not be nice if, years from now, they could find the quote funny instead of cliched?
Alas, I fear that my cries will go unheard, so I, for one, welcome our new unfunny overlord post overlords.
that's odd. that's never happened before when scanning this particular corepirate nazi shill blog.
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with utmost humbleness, i would like to point out that you were a tad rude there.
regards
OH I agree.
Instead of calling it OPENfiler though they are going to call it DEfiler.
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You get SHOT for modding 'overlords' posts as funny.
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I looked at the site, the screen shots, etc., and I'm not convinced that Openfiler does anything special yet. Maybe later, but right now it doesn't seem worth my time.
Open Source, yes, but not GPL...
There exists no way of exchanging information without making judgments. --Bene Gesserit Axiom
They would really need to sweeten the pot to make this interesting. They need to be able to have a single appliance software stack that is capable of exporting filesystems over the network as well as block devices. If they added something on the SERVER end like HyperSCSI (or iSCSI, but HyperSCSI is faster/free), it would be more interesting, no?
gentoo rul3z!
I wonder how well a web-based app works when you have 10,000 users who you're editing?
Coming soon - pyrogyra
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well what are you waiting for? mod me down!
I haven't looked at Webmin in a few years, but this dosen't look like much more than a spcialized / dumbed down Webmin.