Really it just kind of baffles me how Novell isn't out there beating the GW drum as loudly as possible at every opportunity.
I absolutely agree! It drives me crazy that all of these "groupware packages on Linux" comparisons (i.e. like in eWeek) never include Groupwise. The only explanation for this blatant ommission is that the product is not being pushed like it deserves to be. To my knowledge, there is *nothing* that stands up to Exchange like this product. Users can continue to use Outlook if they like with *full* groupware features (not just the IMAP stuff), it has an amazing webmail client in 7.0, it supports a ton of commercial add-ons (anti-virus, anti-spam, Blackberry, Intellisync), and -best of all- it runs like a beast on a 2.6 series kernel.
Just associate the.glade files in Eclipse with Glade. Something really cool you can do with Python and Glade is use libglade (http://www.jamesh.id.au/software/libglade/) to dynamically generate your GUI from the.glade file.
Novell GroupWise gives Exchange a run for it's money. It works beautifully with Outlook, has a killer Webmail interface (in 7.0), works with Evolution, has a fully cross-platform native client, is easy to administer, supports load balancing and fail-over, works with lots of add-ons (i.e. Blackberry Enterprise Server) and, best of all, runs smooth and stable on the 2.6 kernel. You can even run it and authenticate your users against your Active Directory! We just switched from a pure IMAP server to GroupWise on Linux and I cannot say enough good things about it.
I cannot believe that the author is willing to risk his good name with the F/OSS community for such a small amount of money. I mean, what are we talking about here: $1000, $2000...over the course of the next two years? I am sure that if divided his potential earnings by the time making the installers, re-writing any source code in question, marketing, processing registrations, etc. it would not come out to much more than you'd make working a part time job somewhere. If he does not want to do the Windows installers anymore, that is fine...somebody else will step up to the plate, but don't sacrafice a reputation this is so hard earned in the F/OSS community.
Not sure if this is the best forum to ask questions or not, but here it goes anyway. I got Torrentocracy installed per your README, but am unsure how to link the plugin into mythfrontend. Any suggestions?
6. Timesheet. A good OSS web based timesheeting system would be very useful.
Check out SaberNet DCS. It is an Open Source timekeeping package designed to be as efficient as possible. There is nothing worse than spending more time tracking something than you actually spent working on it.
What about instead of turning the Linux kernel team into some sort of formal organization to protect against IP claims, we get some sort of revision to the GPL? Perhaps something that sets up a system of introducing new code with a fixed period in which IP claims can be made. Obviously, copyright law will ultimately take precedent over anything written into the GPL, but perhaps if we had a system in place to handle IP claims it would lend more credibility to the FOSS development process in court.
I just happened to have given a presentation at our LUG about group calendaring with Evolution (and every other iCal compatible software - like Apple iCal, Outlook, KOrganizer, Mozilla Mail) using a slick program called JiCal. Here is a link to the presentation text.
We use this method of automatically publishing our calendars via SSH to a web server at my office and, thus far, it has worked flawlessly. Perhaps somebody can use JiCal as the backend for this bounty?
For me anyway, the most difficult part of setting up Debian has been the uncertainty in the disk partitioning / Lilo setup. Unfortunately, these screenshots do not show much of a change in that area. As the author suggests, some sort of "automatic partitioning" like Anaconda does would be a nice addition.
On another front, is there any reason why the installer cannot let you choose in between GRUB and LILO like Anaconda does?
Where is the station wagon full of pink and blue round-tipped sticks? Oh...not talking about that that Game of Life. I've never played Conway's Game of Life, but I think if it had a snappy commercial gingle it might go a little something like this:
You can't be a winner if you've ever played Conway's Game of Life
I've had this exact problem with the Cool Linux CD:
http://emergencycd2.sourceforge.net/
This article just confirms the problem. I was using a Dell OptiPlex GX1 and the system would just halt on boot. Then on reboot the drive was no longer detected. The drive would not even respond to an eject - I had to do it manually to get my CD back. Unfortunately, I assumed that a CD-ROM could not be damaged by software and that this drive just happened to fail as I was booting...so I tried it on another system! Now I've got two dead CD-ROM drives waiting to be returned to Dell. Now time to play stupid about why the drives failed to get an RMA!
I don't know about you guys, but this worm is working out *great* for me. I used to have to begin tech support calls with "did you reboot your computer". It turns out Windows is wicked stable if you only run it for 60 seconds at a time!
...yes, install apt-rpm and Synaptic. For those not familiar, that combination gives you a nice graphical interface to installing thousands of packages for RPM-based systems without worrying about dependencies, mirrors and such. It is the same technology Debian users have enjoyed for some time ported to RPM-based distros. All you need to use it is to install apt from an RPM file and then issue this command from a console:
apt-get update && apt-get install synaptic
...now you can just run Synaptic to do all of your future installs. I am entirely spoiled by this program!
...this could well be *the* thing that marks the beginning of the end of relevance for Microsoft. They are going to start requiring that software vendors get certified DRM-compliant before their products are released. So now it takes twice as long for new software to be introduced. Sound familiar? Yea, this is why Novell lost out big time on a x86 server industry they had in the palm of their hands. The line will be drawn and users will not like it but, more importantly, software developers will not tolerate it and move to a new platform.
the ideals behind the GPL are communism, no matter how much many out there would prefer to deny it - this has always seemed rather odd to me.
I think Bruce Perens put it best, "Carl Marx did not invent helping your neighbor." It would be different if the government was holding a gun to your head and forced you to release your software under the GPL. Anybody who compares Free Software / Open Source Software to communism does not *really* understand communism - take a couple of bucks and enroll in a class at a local community college.
Jboy_24, do you have any information about the Perl solutions developed at your previous employer? May have been a hard sell to the "big guys", but I know lots of medium-sized businesses that could use something like that.
Now one of the best attributes of this distribution was mentioned in the description of the story; a free online-rpm based installer. Lindows wants you to pay money for access to their dump of RPMs, but not Lycoris.
A week or so ago I read a post about Synaptic, which uses apt and rpm to provide a free online-rpm based installer. I was floored by how good it is...makes Click-N-Run irrelevant. I cannot find the original post, but here is the jist of the installation:
1. Download apt for RedHat Linux: http://apt.freshrpms.net/
2. Once you've got the RPM installed, log into a terminal as root and run the following command: 'apt-get update && apt-get install synaptic'
Amen! Or just a search engine that works at all! You'd think IBM would be a bit concerned with how bad it looks for DB2 that the sourceforge search engine is constantly down because of "high server load".
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It is not Open Source, but is relevant to Novell - check out Groupwise. It really gives Exchange a run for it's money.
I absolutely agree! It drives me crazy that all of these "groupware packages on Linux" comparisons (i.e. like in eWeek) never include Groupwise. The only explanation for this blatant ommission is that the product is not being pushed like it deserves to be. To my knowledge, there is *nothing* that stands up to Exchange like this product. Users can continue to use Outlook if they like with *full* groupware features (not just the IMAP stuff), it has an amazing webmail client in 7.0, it supports a ton of commercial add-ons (anti-virus, anti-spam, Blackberry, Intellisync), and -best of all- it runs like a beast on a 2.6 series kernel.
...and if you are looking for a GUI builder, GTK has a nice one:
.glade files in Eclipse with Glade. Something really cool you can do with Python and Glade is use libglade (http://www.jamesh.id.au/software/libglade/) to dynamically generate your GUI from the .glade file.
http://glade.gnome.org/
Just associate the
Novell GroupWise gives Exchange a run for it's money. It works beautifully with Outlook, has a killer Webmail interface (in 7.0), works with Evolution, has a fully cross-platform native client, is easy to administer, supports load balancing and fail-over, works with lots of add-ons (i.e. Blackberry Enterprise Server) and, best of all, runs smooth and stable on the 2.6 kernel. You can even run it and authenticate your users against your Active Directory! We just switched from a pure IMAP server to GroupWise on Linux and I cannot say enough good things about it.
I cannot believe that the author is willing to risk his good name with the F/OSS community for such a small amount of money. I mean, what are we talking about here: $1000, $2000...over the course of the next two years? I am sure that if divided his potential earnings by the time making the installers, re-writing any source code in question, marketing, processing registrations, etc. it would not come out to much more than you'd make working a part time job somewhere. If he does not want to do the Windows installers anymore, that is fine...somebody else will step up to the plate, but don't sacrafice a reputation this is so hard earned in the F/OSS community.
Check out Compiere. It is a *very* full featured ERP / CRM with a POS module.
That's what I thought, until I caught him in bed with my girlfriend. Some friend...
Not sure if this is the best forum to ask questions or not, but here it goes anyway. I got Torrentocracy installed per your README, but am unsure how to link the plugin into mythfrontend. Any suggestions?
Check out SaberNet DCS. It is an Open Source timekeeping package designed to be as efficient as possible. There is nothing worse than spending more time tracking something than you actually spent working on it.
Disclaimer: I am a developer on this project.
What about instead of turning the Linux kernel team into some sort of formal organization to protect against IP claims, we get some sort of revision to the GPL? Perhaps something that sets up a system of introducing new code with a fixed period in which IP claims can be made. Obviously, copyright law will ultimately take precedent over anything written into the GPL, but perhaps if we had a system in place to handle IP claims it would lend more credibility to the FOSS development process in court.
We use this method of automatically publishing our calendars via SSH to a web server at my office and, thus far, it has worked flawlessly. Perhaps somebody can use JiCal as the backend for this bounty?
On another front, is there any reason why the installer cannot let you choose in between GRUB and LILO like Anaconda does?
You can't be a winner if you've ever played Conway's Game of Life
Yea...I'm pretty much a jerk.
I've had this exact problem with the Cool Linux CD: http://emergencycd2.sourceforge.net/ This article just confirms the problem. I was using a Dell OptiPlex GX1 and the system would just halt on boot. Then on reboot the drive was no longer detected. The drive would not even respond to an eject - I had to do it manually to get my CD back. Unfortunately, I assumed that a CD-ROM could not be damaged by software and that this drive just happened to fail as I was booting...so I tried it on another system! Now I've got two dead CD-ROM drives waiting to be returned to Dell. Now time to play stupid about why the drives failed to get an RMA!
I'd agree with all of the apps on this list as being very worthy of nomination, but I am shocked that Samba is not there.
I don't know about you guys, but this worm is working out *great* for me. I used to have to begin tech support calls with "did you reboot your computer". It turns out Windows is wicked stable if you only run it for 60 seconds at a time!
apt-get update && apt-get install synaptic
...this could well be *the* thing that marks the beginning of the end of relevance for Microsoft. They are going to start requiring that software vendors get certified DRM-compliant before their products are released. So now it takes twice as long for new software to be introduced. Sound familiar? Yea, this is why Novell lost out big time on a x86 server industry they had in the palm of their hands. The line will be drawn and users will not like it but, more importantly, software developers will not tolerate it and move to a new platform.
I think Bruce Perens put it best, "Carl Marx did not invent helping your neighbor." It would be different if the government was holding a gun to your head and forced you to release your software under the GPL. Anybody who compares Free Software / Open Source Software to communism does not *really* understand communism - take a couple of bucks and enroll in a class at a local community college.
Jboy_24, do you have any information about the Perl solutions developed at your previous employer? May have been a hard sell to the "big guys", but I know lots of medium-sized businesses that could use something like that.
A very reputable source denies this report. Don't believe the lies of the infidels!
If the teenage kids working at mc donalds could just remember to
#include MyDamnFrenchFries
I'd be happy.
A week or so ago I read a post about Synaptic, which uses apt and rpm to provide a free online-rpm based installer. I was floored by how good it is...makes Click-N-Run irrelevant. I cannot find the original post, but here is the jist of the installation:
1. Download apt for RedHat Linux: http://apt.freshrpms.net/
2. Once you've got the RPM installed, log into a terminal as root and run the following command: 'apt-get update && apt-get install synaptic'
Amen! Or just a search engine that works at all! You'd think IBM would be a bit concerned with how bad it looks for DB2 that the sourceforge search engine is constantly down because of "high server load".