If your distribution closely follows upstream, and has a good policy on dealing with upstream it can help to report bugs.
The keys to this are
1. Patching the distributions instance of a package as little as possible, so it's as much like upstream as possible
2. Having packagers work closely with upstream to ensure that bugs filed against the distribution are filed against the upstream project.
3. If a fix is made in the distribution- to get that patch offered upstream.
I don't know about fedora, but ubuntu installer has a free software only option at the opening screen. Functionality of high-level stuff may not be there (java, 3d-video, flash) but it's not inseperable.
With Fedora, freedom, is the only option - excepting the binary blobs that are talked about in the above article, that are shipped with the kernel.
Fedora doesn't ship or maintain repositories for non-free software. Adobe Flash isn't there, patent encumbered audio and video codecs aren't there.
Take a look:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/ForbiddenItems
All the documentation in a free system distribution must be released under an appropriate free license. Additionally, it must take care not to recommend nonfree software.
[...]
What would be unacceptable is for the documentation to give people instructions for installing a nonfree program on the system, or mention conveniences they might gain by doing so.
That's just ludicrous. Frankly, it's just a (very) small step away from requiring that you don't (or can't) run any non-free app on your "free" OS. That single clause has just blown any notion of a "free" (in any sense of trying to protect the end-user's freedoms, which is the FSF's major ideological foundation) distribution. I don't know who the manic that wrote that section is, but it's going to cause immeasurable harm to the Free Software movement.
If we go by that clause, NONE of the distros are free. You'd have to cut out a huge chunk of the Ubuntu distro, remove the entire non-free Debian archive, and I'm not even sure how to get it out of Fedora.
What do you mean get it out of Fedora?
Fedora has no non-free software (binary firmware blobs that are distributed with the kernel excepted) to begin with. Moreover Fedora has no 'non-free' repositories. (There are third party repositories for Fedora - but they are not managed or hosted by the Fedora Project.)
To boot Fedora has for years (perhaps since inception) taken the stance of not talking about non-free software in it's documentation. See:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/ForbiddenItems
What ignorance:
As for Linux groupware packages lets start with the best known:
Lotus Domino and Novell Groupwise - Both run on Linux
Then there is the open source crowd including Zimbra, Hula, OpenGroupware.org, egroupware, phpgroupware and a host of others.
As for push email, funambol, aka sync4j, will sync and push to a wider variety of devices than any proprietary variant out there. As a matter of fact one of the largest wireless carriers is using it for their 22 million handsets, Fortune 100 companies are using it, and even phone oems are including the client software.
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I suggest that you look at OpenGroupware.org, in particular you may want to look at SOGo, which is Scalable OpenGroupware.org http://sogo.opengroupware.org/. Unfortunately the SOGo specific bits aren't yet under the GPL/LGPL as the rest of the OGo stack is. However you can license it from Skyrix is my understanding.
You should take a look at OpenGroupware.org. It's quite mature, and in addition to providing facilities for calendaring/mail/rudimentary document, project and contact management, it supports your beloved thunderbird.
Not true!,
Office 12 will initially only be available Windows, with a purported mac version in the works, while OOo is multiplatform, Mac, Linux, Unix, and Windows.
If you are familiar with MTA's, MDA's etc, the the solution is definetely to host your own, and have a backup host on the net as a relay, just in case your box/connection go down. Keep in mind tho, that instead of blaming XYZ email hosting company, that you will be the focus of blame for any outages. Otherwise, find a place that will give you a service level agreement for how many ever 9's management is willing to pay for.
rapid decompression isn't an immediate problem.
explosive decompression, or decompression that occurs in less that 0.5 seconds is problematic. This is due to air decompressing faster than it can be expelled from the lungs. Hypoxia is a concern with both types of decompression
In addition, explosive decompression tends to toss debris around, and introduce people to how cold it really is at 35,000 feet. It's also typically foggy due to the change in humidity.
Try DCL http://dcl.sourceforge.net/ out. It's in use by a large group of people, is very stable. Unlike most of it's competitors it's extremely easy and fast to get setup and yet provides a very featureful interface.
Yes, ProLaw probably won't be abandoning MSSQL, or porting to Postgres or MySQL. I have bugged them about that for two years, and all they seem to want to do is pull away from supporting Sybase. There have been many talks in the past about starting development on an open source alternative to ProLaw and it's competitors, and a couple of projects out there. Maybe it's time to start on this front again.
BTW, ProLaw will run (the end user app) under Wine, but not very well.
Take a look at OpenGroupware.org It's quite stable, permits document and project management, as well as individual/group scheduling, and contact management.
Take a look at Bacula, it's very network friendly, and will even allow you to backup your windows boxes to your linux backup server, among other things.
http://bacula.org
Last I heard, OpenXchange is no longer being marketed by Novell/SuSE with plans to eventually end support.
However, there are a number of other alternatives such as:
OpenGroupware.org
Kolab
phpGroupware
et al.
You're kidding right?? The fact that 3com was founded by Metcalfe, often touted as the creator of Ethernet. Or the fact that 3com (1979) was in existence 5 years before Cisco(1984).
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If your distribution closely follows upstream, and has a good policy on dealing with upstream it can help to report bugs. The keys to this are 1. Patching the distributions instance of a package as little as possible, so it's as much like upstream as possible 2. Having packagers work closely with upstream to ensure that bugs filed against the distribution are filed against the upstream project. 3. If a fix is made in the distribution- to get that patch offered upstream.
I don't know about fedora, but ubuntu installer has a free software only option at the opening screen. Functionality of high-level stuff may not be there (java, 3d-video, flash) but it's not inseperable.
With Fedora, freedom, is the only option - excepting the binary blobs that are talked about in the above article, that are shipped with the kernel. Fedora doesn't ship or maintain repositories for non-free software. Adobe Flash isn't there, patent encumbered audio and video codecs aren't there. Take a look: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/ForbiddenItems
All the documentation in a free system distribution must be released under an appropriate free license. Additionally, it must take care not to recommend nonfree software. [...] What would be unacceptable is for the documentation to give people instructions for installing a nonfree program on the system, or mention conveniences they might gain by doing so.
That's just ludicrous. Frankly, it's just a (very) small step away from requiring that you don't (or can't) run any non-free app on your "free" OS. That single clause has just blown any notion of a "free" (in any sense of trying to protect the end-user's freedoms, which is the FSF's major ideological foundation) distribution. I don't know who the manic that wrote that section is, but it's going to cause immeasurable harm to the Free Software movement.
If we go by that clause, NONE of the distros are free. You'd have to cut out a huge chunk of the Ubuntu distro, remove the entire non-free Debian archive, and I'm not even sure how to get it out of Fedora.
What do you mean get it out of Fedora? Fedora has no non-free software (binary firmware blobs that are distributed with the kernel excepted) to begin with. Moreover Fedora has no 'non-free' repositories. (There are third party repositories for Fedora - but they are not managed or hosted by the Fedora Project.) To boot Fedora has for years (perhaps since inception) taken the stance of not talking about non-free software in it's documentation. See: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/ForbiddenItems
What ignorance: As for Linux groupware packages lets start with the best known: Lotus Domino and Novell Groupwise - Both run on Linux Then there is the open source crowd including Zimbra, Hula, OpenGroupware.org, egroupware, phpgroupware and a host of others. As for push email, funambol, aka sync4j, will sync and push to a wider variety of devices than any proprietary variant out there. As a matter of fact one of the largest wireless carriers is using it for their 22 million handsets, Fortune 100 companies are using it, and even phone oems are including the client software. L
Ummm actually they can't use that against you, it's called 'Fruit of the Poisonous Tree'
I suggest that you look at OpenGroupware.org, in particular you may want to look at SOGo, which is Scalable OpenGroupware.org http://sogo.opengroupware.org/. Unfortunately the SOGo specific bits aren't yet under the GPL/LGPL as the rest of the OGo stack is. However you can license it from Skyrix is my understanding.
You should take a look at OpenGroupware.org. It's quite mature, and in addition to providing facilities for calendaring/mail/rudimentary document, project and contact management, it supports your beloved thunderbird.
Not true!, Office 12 will initially only be available Windows, with a purported mac version in the works, while OOo is multiplatform, Mac, Linux, Unix, and Windows.
If you are familiar with MTA's, MDA's etc, the the solution is definetely to host your own, and have a backup host on the net as a relay, just in case your box/connection go down.
Keep in mind tho, that instead of blaming XYZ email hosting company, that you will be the focus of blame for any outages.
Otherwise, find a place that will give you a service level agreement for how many ever 9's management is willing to pay for.
rapid decompression isn't an immediate problem. explosive decompression, or decompression that occurs in less that 0.5 seconds is problematic. This is due to air decompressing faster than it can be expelled from the lungs. Hypoxia is a concern with both types of decompression In addition, explosive decompression tends to toss debris around, and introduce people to how cold it really is at 35,000 feet. It's also typically foggy due to the change in humidity.
Try DCL http://dcl.sourceforge.net/ out. It's in use by a large group of people, is very stable. Unlike most of it's competitors it's extremely easy and fast to get setup and yet provides a very featureful interface.
Yes, ProLaw probably won't be abandoning MSSQL, or porting to Postgres or MySQL. I have bugged them about that for two years, and all they seem to want to do is pull away from supporting Sybase.
There have been many talks in the past about starting development on an open source alternative to ProLaw and it's competitors, and a couple of projects out there. Maybe it's time to start on this front again.
BTW, ProLaw will run (the end user app) under Wine, but not very well.
Take a look at OpenGroupware.org
It's quite stable, permits document and project management, as well as individual/group scheduling, and contact management.
Take a look at Bacula, it's very network friendly, and will even allow you to backup your windows boxes to your linux backup server, among other things. http://bacula.org
Last I heard, OpenXchange is no longer being marketed by Novell/SuSE with plans to eventually end support. However, there are a number of other alternatives such as: OpenGroupware.org Kolab phpGroupware et al.
You're kidding right?? The fact that 3com was founded by Metcalfe, often touted as the creator of Ethernet. Or the fact that 3com (1979) was in existence 5 years before Cisco(1984).