The company I work for just got a liscense for raps (by foglight), and one of their reps said that they are planning on porting to Linux.
As it stands raps runs just on solaris (maybe nt?), and is very cool. I was skeptical at first, having seen a bunch f other crappy monitoring applications that I could write better myself, but this one really does a good job of presenting both low and high level stats in very digestible formats.
When I wanted to install linux on a friends laptop I decided, I'd go buy the new Redhat disks (I'm a long-time redhat fan). The store I went to only had the 5.2 disks and the Caldera set, so I thought I'd experiment. Well, despite all my efforts, I couldn't get Caldera to work on my friends Thinkpad 560 (needs pcmcia cdrom support.) Eventually I just used my old Redhat disks whihc worked fine. Still in the mood for experimentation I installed Caldera on an old PII I had at home. Here the install went fine, though it seems that if you want to over-install another linux distribution, you need to use their tools (it wasn't happy just writing onto my previous partitions - I had to start their default install, back out of it after it had made the boot sector, then repartion the disk.)
The fact that there are only 4 install options (basically all or nothing) is annoying, as is the fact that it defaults to starting every imaginable service.
There appear to be some problems with adding users through the install GUI, though adding them by hand seemed to go just fine. I haven't done much more playing than that - all in all it seems like a step in the right direction for a mass-appeal linux distribution, but could still be alot better. The lack of support for that Thinkpad was pretty annoying as well.
But in cases involving young children (and even not so young children) lack of anonymity, guilt and shame are precisely what keep people from seeking professional help. I think in general the hope is that internet resources (like public service announcements and all those brochures you see at doctors offices) will give people enough information and culture enough confidence for them to seek out more professional resources.
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The company I work for just got a liscense for raps (by foglight), and one of their reps said that they are planning on porting to Linux.
As it stands raps runs just on solaris (maybe nt?), and is very cool. I was skeptical at first, having seen a bunch f other crappy monitoring applications that I could write better myself, but this one really does a good job of presenting both low and high level stats in very digestible formats.
When I wanted to install linux on a friends laptop I decided, I'd go buy the new Redhat disks (I'm a long-time redhat fan). The store I went to only had the 5.2 disks and the Caldera set, so I thought I'd experiment. Well, despite all my efforts, I couldn't get Caldera to work on my friends Thinkpad 560 (needs pcmcia cdrom support.) Eventually I just used my old Redhat disks whihc worked fine. Still in the mood for experimentation I installed Caldera on an old PII I had at home. Here the install went fine, though it seems that if you want to over-install another linux distribution, you need to use their tools (it wasn't happy just writing onto my previous partitions - I had to start their default install, back out of it after it had made the boot sector, then repartion the disk.)
The fact that there are only 4 install options (basically all or nothing) is annoying, as is the fact that it defaults to starting every imaginable service.
There appear to be some problems with adding users through the install GUI, though adding them by hand seemed to go just fine. I haven't done much more playing than that - all in all it seems like a step in the right direction for a mass-appeal linux distribution, but could still be alot better. The lack of support for that Thinkpad was pretty annoying as well.
But in cases involving young children (and even not so young children) lack of anonymity, guilt and shame are precisely what keep people from seeking professional help. I think in general the hope is that internet resources (like public service announcements and all those brochures you see at doctors offices) will give people enough information and culture enough confidence for them to seek out more professional resources.