Obviously, check out open source options.
For users that require collaboration features (ie. calendar, appointment scheduling, tasks etc) I'd give Open-Xchange a serious look.
An scalable, open-source based email server particularly well suited if you have multiple domains etc. is Limacute, developed by Linpro, a Linux experts company in Norway. It is GPL and in use by at least one large mail-centric ISP.
There's also the Hula Project. It is based on Novell's NetMail. Novell used to claim that a single server easily could handle 100.000 users. The Hula project is adding calendar and other features.
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... Graphics card producer ATI has just released a new driver for the world's most popular desktop operating system, Linux. The driver will accellerate some, but not all 2D graphics operatings with X11R7.
The company also announced it is accellerating its development process and published a new roadmap:
2011, ATI will have full 2D accelleration
May 2012, the company expects to support the most important 3D operations in X
Nov 2012, start support for extra functions of its graphics cards, such as TV-in and video decoding on Linux
By 2015, ATI expects to have full support for all 2D/3D and multimedia functions for all its graphics cards on Linux
Mar 2016, the company will accellerate development even further. It will start porting some, but not all, applications to Linux.
Aug 2016, ATI will begin work to support versions of X released in the mean time, including X11R8, X11R9 and X11R10.
Its great that we have a final, standardized version of Open Document Format. But there was some talk a while back that EU might choose this as their standard. That would really turn the tables on Microsoft, with Koffice and OpenOffice using it as standard and Microsoft playing catchup.
Anyone know what happened?
So you came in late, had a whopping 10 minutes of positive experience with ATI and decided that all those Slashdotters had it all wrong?
Next time try buying one of their All-in-Wonder cards, the ones with TV-Tuner and FM Radio built in. Even if you get a driver that installs, you'll find almost no support for all the features in AiW cards.
Also, it was only recently that ATI added support for X.org, and before that they were late with 2.6 kernel support.
In other words, if you had one of the recent and most popular distros (Fedora or SUSE) that used a 2.6 kernel, you were out of luck.
No, ATI DESERVEDLY has a bad rep. Supposedly they are working on improving things, but lets just see. Have fun with your X800, but dont think that all the grudges are gone because of your 10 minutes.
WHY did they buy SuSE?!
It was a strategic aquisition that rescued Novell from obscurity. From hardly being mentioned at all, Novell now gets A LOT of media attention.That alone was worth the price - now suddenly they have an audience when they talk about their identity management and enterprise management software.
They are perceived as being the most interesting Linux company - precisely because they have a great software stack that can be combined with Linux.
Also, when they bought SuSE they didn't just buy Linux. They got a company with engineers and skills. With a brand name.
You didn't think all that was downloadable from the net, did you?
>I like my coffee like I like my women. Ground up > and kept in the freezer.
Do you have any idea how plain -stupi-d this sounds? You just tried to appear informative and objective and then you use a sexist.sig like that.
I've seen it before and didnt react to it then. It was the contrast in tone and seriousness between your comment and your.sig that did it. I know its supposed to be funny, but I'm really annoyed by the sexism of it. At least half the population will not appreciate it (I'm male, by the way)
Ouch. And I thought all fellow slashdotters easily could ignore obvious facts-of-life.
boy was I wrong. And YOU are the guy who corrected me. No-one else, just you. I mean, this thing I started could have escalated into slashdotters putting more pressure on vendors such as ATI! But before it got out of hand, you stopped it with a simple, dry fact-of-life statement. There could be hundreds of thousands of people that were at risk of thinking the Top Graphics Card Vendor should do better, all completely ignoring the important fact that you brought to the foreground. I bet no-one knew this.
As any Linux users will tell you (and there are supposed to be a few among this crowd), it is ATI that is playing catchup. As far as making Linux drivers available for their products, that is.
Who cares about market share, monthly volumes and top-of-the-line performance when 90% of the features of an ATI Radeon All-in-Wonder card are NOT available on Linux? It's only a couple a weeks ago the first feature-less driver for the X.org / 2.6 kernel came out!
It's fine that Microsoft has enabled everyone and their grandma to include Office-compatiblity in their products, but we really dont want MS Office to become the 'open' standard of the future.
Work is well underway to include support for the new OASIS office document formats in OpenOffice.org. I'd hate this new M$ announcement to result in nobody Office 2003 formats to become a standard, simply because nobody will bother developing their own.
Perhaps OO.o should only include READ capability for Microsofts formats, and READ + WRITE for OASIS and other open standards?
What's this?! I saw the news on slashdot, finished what I was doing at work, went home, fired up YaST, then Synaptic and neither has the 1.0 release yet.
-- "Indians! We're doomed, Tonto!" "What do you mean 'we', white man?"
I'm fine with the product itself. It has glitches and a gotchas but they will be ironed out and I can live with them.
What I really feel OO.o is missing is an abundance of quality templates, clipart, macros and sample documents.
This is what Microsoft is so good at. Every MS Office application has plenty of templates, examples etc. and tons more can be found at the MS Office website. And Im not talking about mediocre to fair user-submitted stuff, but templates from Microsoft. This means that every MS OFfice application can be learned more quickly and professional results achieved sooner. Case in point: Start up MS Access, and it offers to create a household inventory database.
By comparison, Open Office offers nothing to talk about when you select File / New from template in any OO.o application.
A barebone "Recommendation of a strategy" and "Introducing a new strategy" is all you get. ClipArt? Forget it.
What about downloading stuff from the OO.o site? Nope, a meagre selection of mediocre stuff.
What about other sites? There are a few, but nothing like Microsoft's Office galleery site. Most of it is mediocre, and you have to spend a lot of time surfing if you want to build a collection.
Now people, remember that Microsoft has a long-standing tradition of using documents and documentformats to build and sustain their monopoly. Well, *this* is how we counter that. Build quality templates and template-wizards using macros. New users evaluating OO.o should immediately find that they can easily produce the documents they need. Resumes, business letters, newsletters, spreadsheets, presentations.
We need to have clipart libraries as well. Font packages.
With all that, and the recent possibilities that OO.o document formats may become official standards and even used within the EU, we could really take some marketshare from Microsoft!
So I propose this: Lets build a new OO.o resources portal, and make OO.o integrate and use it so users wont even have to download stuff - OO.o would do it for them. Once such a site is up, start asking design professionals contribute with professional templates, samples etc.
The codename for the first generation of Novells current filesystem was ZFS. Why? because it was supposed to be "the last, or final word" in file systems.
Novell now Novell Storage System (I think it used to be NetWare Storage System).
Apart from the obvious fact that SUN didnt manage to be very original in naming their filesystem, its noteworthy that Novell is porting their ZFS - now NSS - to Linux. It'll be part of Novell Open Enterprise Server - on both Linux and NetWare kernels.
From the top of my mind, here are some features of NSS that SUN needs to exceed to qualify for a new "final word..":
- Background compression
- Fast on-demand decompression
- Transactions
- Pluggable Name spaces
- Pluggable protocols (ie. http, nfs, etc)
- Advanced Access control model with inheritance, rights filters, etc. integrated with directory service (duh!)
- Quotas on user, group, directory level
- 64-bit (ok, SUN obviously got that one)
- mini-volumes
- journaled
- etc.
oh well, I wont bother continuing, but its worth looking out for NSS. Hopefully Novell will open source it and not make it exclusive to their distros.
This recommendation should be splashed all over the homepage of Mozilla / Firefox! Anyone who visits out of curiosity should learn that the Dept of Homeland Security recommends switching. Suggested headline:
"DEPT. OF HOMELAND SECURITY RECOMMENDS YOU SWITCH AWAY FROM USING INTERNET EXPLORER. Here's why" and a link.
BTW, DoHS should also extend their recommendation to any product that uses IE for HTML viewing, such as Outlook etc.
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An scalable, open-source based email server particularly well suited if you have multiple domains etc. is Limacute, developed by Linpro, a Linux experts company in Norway. It is GPL and in use by at least one large mail-centric ISP.
There's also the Hula Project. It is based on Novell's NetMail. Novell used to claim that a single server easily could handle 100.000 users. The Hula project is adding calendar and other features.
Start your reading here.
Its great that we have a final, standardized version of Open Document Format. But there was some talk a while back that EU might choose this as their standard. That would really turn the tables on Microsoft, with Koffice and OpenOffice using it as standard and Microsoft playing catchup. Anyone know what happened?
A tool that lets you Pull stuff out of BitKeeper. How did he manage to avoid naming it BitPull?
So you came in late, had a whopping 10 minutes of positive experience with ATI and decided that all those Slashdotters had it all wrong? Next time try buying one of their All-in-Wonder cards, the ones with TV-Tuner and FM Radio built in. Even if you get a driver that installs, you'll find almost no support for all the features in AiW cards. Also, it was only recently that ATI added support for X.org, and before that they were late with 2.6 kernel support. In other words, if you had one of the recent and most popular distros (Fedora or SUSE) that used a 2.6 kernel, you were out of luck. No, ATI DESERVEDLY has a bad rep. Supposedly they are working on improving things, but lets just see. Have fun with your X800, but dont think that all the grudges are gone because of your 10 minutes.
It's not 95% of IT projects that are not on time, its 95% of IT groups deliver some projects not on time. Sheez!
See how fast this is getting fixed..
I can live with glitches, slight instability etc. as long as I know that then RC2, RC3 or release comes out, I can easily upgrade from this RC1.
WHY did they buy SuSE?! It was a strategic aquisition that rescued Novell from obscurity. From hardly being mentioned at all, Novell now gets A LOT of media attention.That alone was worth the price - now suddenly they have an audience when they talk about their identity management and enterprise management software. They are perceived as being the most interesting Linux company - precisely because they have a great software stack that can be combined with Linux. Also, when they bought SuSE they didn't just buy Linux. They got a company with engineers and skills. With a brand name. You didn't think all that was downloadable from the net, did you?
>I like my coffee like I like my women. Ground up
.sig like that.
.sig that did it. I know its supposed to be funny, but I'm really annoyed by the sexism of it. At least half the population will not appreciate it (I'm male, by the way)
> and kept in the freezer.
Do you have any idea how plain -stupi-d this sounds? You just tried to appear informative and objective and then you use a sexist
I've seen it before and didnt react to it then. It was the contrast in tone and seriousness between your comment and your
It simply wasnt believable.
Yeah, you're right. I'm whimpering...
Ouch. And I thought all fellow slashdotters easily could ignore obvious facts-of-life.
boy was I wrong. And YOU are the guy who corrected me. No-one else, just you. I mean, this thing I started could have escalated into slashdotters putting more pressure on vendors such as ATI! But before it got out of hand, you stopped it with a simple, dry fact-of-life statement. There could be hundreds of thousands of people that were at risk of thinking the Top Graphics Card Vendor should do better, all completely ignoring the important fact that you brought to the foreground. I bet no-one knew this.
Who cares about market share, monthly volumes and top-of-the-line performance when 90% of the features of an ATI Radeon All-in-Wonder card are NOT available on Linux? It's only a couple a weeks ago the first feature-less driver for the X.org / 2.6 kernel came out!
Ok so it might not happen exactly like this but I bet they will try to do something similar!
People, I'm worried here:
It's fine that Microsoft has enabled everyone and their grandma to include Office-compatiblity in their products, but we really dont want MS Office to become the 'open' standard of the future.
Work is well underway to include support for the new OASIS office document formats in OpenOffice.org. I'd hate this new M$ announcement to result in nobody Office 2003 formats to become a standard, simply because nobody will bother developing their own.
Perhaps OO.o should only include READ capability for Microsofts formats, and READ + WRITE for OASIS and other open standards?
I'd say it is 'mostly harmless'.
But don't listen to me - I'm still dizzy from the party that bumped into the small of my back last night.
The feature plan for 3.4 can be found here.
What's this?!
I saw the news on slashdot, finished what I was doing at work, went home, fired up YaST, then Synaptic and neither has the 1.0 release yet.
--
"Indians! We're doomed, Tonto!"
"What do you mean 'we', white man?"
I'm fine with the product itself. It has glitches and a gotchas but they will be ironed out and I can live with them.
What I really feel OO.o is missing is an abundance of quality templates, clipart, macros and sample documents.
This is what Microsoft is so good at. Every MS Office application has plenty of templates, examples etc. and tons more can be found at the MS Office website. And Im not talking about mediocre to fair user-submitted stuff, but templates from Microsoft.
This means that every MS OFfice application can be learned more quickly and professional results achieved sooner. Case in point: Start up MS Access, and it offers to create a household inventory database.
By comparison, Open Office offers nothing to talk about when you select File / New from template in any OO.o application.
A barebone "Recommendation of a strategy" and "Introducing a new strategy" is all you get.
ClipArt? Forget it.
What about downloading stuff from the OO.o site? Nope, a meagre selection of mediocre stuff.
What about other sites? There are a few, but nothing like Microsoft's Office galleery site. Most of it is mediocre, and you have to spend a lot of time surfing if you want to build a collection.
Now people, remember that Microsoft has a long-standing tradition of using documents and documentformats to build and sustain their monopoly. Well, *this* is how we counter that. Build quality templates and template-wizards using macros. New users evaluating OO.o should immediately find that they can easily produce the documents they need. Resumes, business letters, newsletters, spreadsheets, presentations.
We need to have clipart libraries as well. Font packages.
With all that, and the recent possibilities that OO.o document formats may become official standards and even used within the EU, we could really take some marketshare from Microsoft!
So I propose this:
Lets build a new OO.o resources portal, and make OO.o integrate and use it so users wont even have to download stuff - OO.o would do it for them.
Once such a site is up, start asking design professionals contribute with professional templates, samples etc.
Isnt fedora on kernel 2.6 yet? I run SUSE myself and the drivers are 2.4 only..
> I still do not know how to get my ATI Radeon 9700
> Pro to work properly under SuSe. It's a pain in
> the butt!
Thats because the current ATI driver only supports kernel 2.4, while SUSE is using 2.6 by default.
It only goes to show how far behind ATI are with their drivers. Even the latest driver that they put up on their site a few days ago is 2.4 only.
The codename for the first generation of Novells current filesystem was ZFS. Why? because it was supposed to be "the last, or final word" in file systems.
Novell now Novell Storage System (I think it used to be NetWare Storage System).
Apart from the obvious fact that SUN didnt manage to be very original in naming their filesystem, its noteworthy that Novell is porting their ZFS - now NSS - to Linux. It'll be part of Novell Open Enterprise Server - on both Linux and NetWare kernels.
From the top of my mind, here are some features of NSS that SUN needs to exceed to qualify for a new "final word..":
- Background compression
- Fast on-demand decompression
- Transactions
- Pluggable Name spaces
- Pluggable protocols (ie. http, nfs, etc)
- Advanced Access control model with inheritance, rights filters, etc. integrated with directory service (duh!)
- Quotas on user, group, directory level
- 64-bit (ok, SUN obviously got that one)
- mini-volumes
- journaled
- etc.
oh well, I wont bother continuing, but its worth looking out for NSS. Hopefully Novell will open source it and not make it exclusive to their distros.
This recommendation should be splashed all over the homepage of Mozilla / Firefox! Anyone who visits out of curiosity should learn that the Dept of Homeland Security recommends switching. Suggested headline: "DEPT. OF HOMELAND SECURITY RECOMMENDS YOU SWITCH AWAY FROM USING INTERNET EXPLORER. Here's why" and a link. BTW, DoHS should also extend their recommendation to any product that uses IE for HTML viewing, such as Outlook etc.