Ignore Donny Smith's reply... it's the standard geek, condescending reply. I don't understand why people like him feel the need to use up bandwidth and time to post useless comments when they have nothing constructive to add to a conversation.
I don't know about Windows machines but for maintaining *nix ones you can use projects like radmind or Cfengine. Someone else in this discussion mentioned sblim but it doesn't look that project is ready to be used in production environments. Hopefully someone else will point to some other decent software.
Actually there are a couple of commercial ones. I can't remember the names but go through the radmind mailing list archives and they're probably mentioned a bunch of times. Speaking of radmind, are you aware of the fact that several university administrators are using it to manage networks consisting of hundreds of Mac OS X machines? radmind can work on UNIX, BSD and Linux machines as well.
I believe this is what you might be looking for. Also, since Novell acquired Ximian I would think that they would be focusing a lot more now on Gnome instead of just KDE. Isn't that what they use on the Novell Desktop?
Off topic a bit, but what is a good distro for servers in general?
CentOS. Stable and predictable releases as opposed to long drawn out ones which might happen or might not.
I love Debian but I don't use it much any more for servers. I grew tired of using backports and hearing excuses like "just use testing or unstable on servers" considering both those branches aren't supported by the Debian security team.
It looks to me like CentOS got a legal letter and instead of opening a dialogue they just capitulated right away. Why didn't they talk to the Red Hat lawyers and reach an agreement on name usage?
It's been mentioned on their mailing lists and message boards - check out the archives. Generally you need lawyers to talk to lawyers. They don't have money to hire lawyers. I don't have money to donate for lawyer fees. If you do then please approach the project leaders, I'm sure they would be willing to accept your donations.
Obviously community internet will lead to community controlled media eventually squeezeing out cable/phone and every other communication medium. I don't blame the companies one bit. But I will blame the government if they let this happen.
Hehehehehe he said if. This is the government we're talking about remember? Nothing personal, it's just bidness.
Here is the link to the 250,000 free eDirectory user licenses. I don't think it's just limited to software developers but I don't know how long this offer will last. Grab em while they're hot.
I've been testing it on RHEL ES 3 for a couple of weeks now and so far no complaints. Never thought I would say this but....... thanks Novell!
Okay so I saw the screenshots and from the description it is mentioned several times that this is mail + calendaring. Two questions for anyone involved with this project or whoever has used Netmail.
1. Does this allow a team to share their schedules, calendars? Can you modify each others?
2. Does this ship with an addressbook that can be shared with other people on the server? Can you add entries in others?
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Am I correct in assuming that they just released Solaris 10 x86 this week? If that's the case then who in their right mind would be using it in a production environment a day or two after release?
I don't know if you are aware that there is a PostgreSQL-aware version of Bugzilla available. Red Hat is pretty big on PostgreSQL so they maintain that version. The link leads you to a bugzilla-redhat-20031120.tar.gz tarball but there are testing a new beta based on bugzilla 2.18rc3. Check it out.
Where does a residential user obtain access to a secure box in order to download and record the operating system's service pack? Do public libraries tend to have CD burners on computers available to members?
When I was in that situation I went to my friend's place, downloaded all the updates, burnt them to a CD and went home happily to install them on my computer. I'm assuming people out there have friends too. Why would your first choice be a public library?
No, you download all those updates from a secure box and have them on a CD. That way you don't need to connect an insecure XP box to the internets until you've applied all the previously downloaded updates. Oh yea and you can download those updates with any browser.
Just don't make that mistake of going for an Exchange and Outlook combo. Go with Novell Groupwise instead. In the end you will get the same functionality with fewer viruses.
If you are worried that your donations won't reach the right people then consider donating to CARE. They seem to have some of the lowest administration costs among relief agencies. Over 90% goes to affected victims.
It all depends on your budget. It sounds weird but do you want to go the opensource way and not pay at all or do you have some funds set aside for this change? I'm mainly referring to using commercial Linux distros like RHEL or SUSE. Both subscriptions, the basic options, can be bought for roughly $350 per year. That will get you a stable platform which doesn't change a lot for five years. If you don't want to pay for RHEL or SUSE support and don't mind supporting yourself with the help of a community then I would suggest going with a RHEL clone operating system like CentOS. It's based on RHEL, the developers use the same SRPM packages provided by Red Hat so you still get some of the benefits.
Now for the application stack. I prefer using Novell's eDirectory as opposed to Microsoft's Active Directory. It'll run on Linux so that's one less Windows server right there. The price is based on a per user basis which comes up to $2 per user! Not a bad price. Tie that in with all your Linux services such as Samba, IMAP server, Postfix with eDirectory using the LDAP protocol. Their password self-service option is pretty enticing as well.
While we're on the topic of Novell and moving away from Windows on servers, look into GroupWise as a messaging server instead of MS Exchange. Again, it runs on Linux as well a bunch of other platforms and has cross platform clients so you're not limited to Windows for end users either.
Clearly Novell is a company that needs to get its act together. You claim to have found a $349 price for support. I hunted forever and found a $900 price tag (not for zenworks, for SuSE Enterprise Linux 9 support).
Say what? Here is the page you linked to. And then this is what you said: "On Novell's SuSE Enterprise 9 page they say that it will only cost you $35 for a single-CPU copy of SuSE Enterprise 9."
I'm sorry but that pricing scheme seems pretty simple to me. You made the mistake in assuming that $35 for the Media implied that it included the yearly subscription fee for support as well. Right below that line (notice that you don't need to "hunt forever") it says: "SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server 1 server, up to 2 CPUs, per year $349".
Quite a few hardware/software manufacturers (one example: I.B.M.) charge extra for the media. This should be obvious to anyone who has ordered or put together a quote using their price lists.
Why should they have to deal with pesky facts and statistics when it's so easy to dismiss anything critical of Bush as liberal bias? It's a good thing there is the almighty Fox News Network taking all that dirty liberal bias out of news reporting. Mmmmmmm fair and balanced.
I will possibly be looking into implementing Groupwise on SLES9. I noticed that in the documentation they always mention SLES8 so I figured that the latest version of SUSE is not supported. Could you please outline any issues you have faced while dealing with Groupwise/eDirectory on Linux? It is always interesting to hear opinions of administrators using the software after reading the vendor supplied docs. Thanks!
I recently came across a BenQ 19" LCD monitor and the price was pretty reasonable. Call me ignorant but I haven't come across any BenQ monitors before. Is anyone out there using any of these displays and has any comments about them? So far I haven't come across any useful reviews.
I asked a similar question not too long ago. So far I've come to the conclusion that you should use binpatch for security patches and the release(8) process to generate new binary tar archives. Then extract those tar archives in / to upgrade to a new release and finally run mergemaster. I'm going to look into scripting the whole build process and automatically updating on the client side.
mergemaster for OpenBSD is a shell script which I believe is a port from the original FreeBSD perl script. I don't have a link to an online man page for the OpenBSD version but here is the FreeBSD one. It's the same concept and the same commands,keystrokes when you're comparing or merging config files. Quite handy.
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Are you using SBLIM? And if so then what has your experience been with it? Any gotchas?
I don't know about Windows machines but for maintaining *nix ones you can use projects like radmind or Cfengine. Someone else in this discussion mentioned sblim but it doesn't look that project is ready to be used in production environments. Hopefully someone else will point to some other decent software.
Actually there are a couple of commercial ones. I can't remember the names but go through the radmind mailing list archives and they're probably mentioned a bunch of times. Speaking of radmind, are you aware of the fact that several university administrators are using it to manage networks consisting of hundreds of Mac OS X machines? radmind can work on UNIX, BSD and Linux machines as well.
I believe this is what you might be looking for. Also, since Novell acquired Ximian I would think that they would be focusing a lot more now on Gnome instead of just KDE. Isn't that what they use on the Novell Desktop?
CentOS. Stable and predictable releases as opposed to long drawn out ones which might happen or might not.
I love Debian but I don't use it much any more for servers. I grew tired of using backports and hearing excuses like "just use testing or unstable on servers" considering both those branches aren't supported by the Debian security team.
It's been mentioned on their mailing lists and message boards - check out the archives. Generally you need lawyers to talk to lawyers. They don't have money to hire lawyers. I don't have money to donate for lawyer fees. If you do then please approach the project leaders, I'm sure they would be willing to accept your donations.
"get paid" and "earn $$$" or "serious cash!"
Does that sound like a company that's associated with spam or spyware?
Hehehehehe he said if . This is the government we're talking about remember? Nothing personal, it's just bidness.
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=139913&cid=117 18534
I've been testing it on RHEL ES 3 for a couple of weeks now and so far no complaints. Never thought I would say this but....... thanks Novell!
Excellent documentation too.
Okay so I saw the screenshots and from the description it is mentioned several times that this is mail + calendaring. Two questions for anyone involved with this project or whoever has used Netmail.
1. Does this allow a team to share their schedules, calendars? Can you modify each others?
2. Does this ship with an addressbook that can be shared with other people on the server? Can you add entries in others?
Am I correct in assuming that they just released Solaris 10 x86 this week? If that's the case then who in their right mind would be using it in a production environment a day or two after release?
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=136274&cid=113 83496
I don't know if you are aware that there is a PostgreSQL-aware version of Bugzilla available. Red Hat is pretty big on PostgreSQL so they maintain that version. The link leads you to a bugzilla-redhat-20031120.tar.gz tarball but there are testing a new beta based on bugzilla 2.18rc3. Check it out.
When I was in that situation I went to my friend's place, downloaded all the updates, burnt them to a CD and went home happily to install them on my computer. I'm assuming people out there have friends too. Why would your first choice be a public library?
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No, you download all those updates from a secure box and have them on a CD. That way you don't need to connect an insecure XP box to the internets until you've applied all the previously downloaded updates. Oh yea and you can download those updates with any browser.
Just don't make that mistake of going for an Exchange and Outlook combo. Go with Novell Groupwise instead. In the end you will get the same functionality with fewer viruses.
If you are worried that your donations won't reach the right people then consider donating to CARE. They seem to have some of the lowest administration costs among relief agencies. Over 90% goes to affected victims.
Now for the application stack. I prefer using Novell's eDirectory as opposed to Microsoft's Active Directory. It'll run on Linux so that's one less Windows server right there. The price is based on a per user basis which comes up to $2 per user! Not a bad price. Tie that in with all your Linux services such as Samba, IMAP server, Postfix with eDirectory using the LDAP protocol. Their password self-service option is pretty enticing as well.
While we're on the topic of Novell and moving away from Windows on servers, look into GroupWise as a messaging server instead of MS Exchange. Again, it runs on Linux as well a bunch of other platforms and has cross platform clients so you're not limited to Windows for end users either.
Say what? Here is the page you linked to. And then this is what you said: "On Novell's SuSE Enterprise 9 page they say that it will only cost you $35 for a single-CPU copy of SuSE Enterprise 9."
I'm sorry but that pricing scheme seems pretty simple to me. You made the mistake in assuming that $35 for the Media implied that it included the yearly subscription fee for support as well. Right below that line (notice that you don't need to "hunt forever") it says: "SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server 1 server, up to 2 CPUs, per year $349".
Quite a few hardware/software manufacturers (one example: I.B.M.) charge extra for the media. This should be obvious to anyone who has ordered or put together a quote using their price lists.
Why should they have to deal with pesky facts and statistics when it's so easy to dismiss anything critical of Bush as liberal bias? It's a good thing there is the almighty Fox News Network taking all that dirty liberal bias out of news reporting. Mmmmmmm fair and balanced.
I will possibly be looking into implementing Groupwise on SLES9. I noticed that in the documentation they always mention SLES8 so I figured that the latest version of SUSE is not supported. Could you please outline any issues you have faced while dealing with Groupwise/eDirectory on Linux? It is always interesting to hear opinions of administrators using the software after reading the vendor supplied docs. Thanks!
I recently came across a BenQ 19" LCD monitor and the price was pretty reasonable. Call me ignorant but I haven't come across any BenQ monitors before. Is anyone out there using any of these displays and has any comments about them? So far I haven't come across any useful reviews.
I asked a similar question not too long ago. So far I've come to the conclusion that you should use binpatch for security patches and the release(8) process to generate new binary tar archives. Then extract those tar archives in / to upgrade to a new release and finally run mergemaster. I'm going to look into scripting the whole build process and automatically updating on the client side.
mergemaster for OpenBSD is a shell script which I believe is a port from the original FreeBSD perl script. I don't have a link to an online man page for the OpenBSD version but here is the FreeBSD one. It's the same concept and the same commands,keystrokes when you're comparing or merging config files. Quite handy.