atleast I found it very easy to get running and I had never used OpenLDAP before. After a quick test install, it took a few hours to roll out on all my servers and get all services to use LDAP for authentication. I havent experienced any problems.
However I havent been able to find a decent LDAP browser tool, I've used GQ a few times but mainly use the commandline tools. (there are some smbldap-tools on the idealx.org site)
There is an article in the danish Computerworld today about some of Denmark's largest companies, Grundfos, Danisco, Danfoss, Carlsberg og Novo Nordisk, considering suing Microsoft due to their new licencing scheme.
Danfoss admits that they knowingly have tied themselves completely to the Windows platform as they believes (or believed) they would benefit most using Microsoft.
Carlsberg has considered switching to Sun or Linux but find it unrealistic due to cost of retraining. It is so much easier to sue, i guess.
Well, you can read the article here (in danish!!):
FreeBSD appears to put stability before anything else (which is great) and I suppose development is more "designed" than development on the Linux kernel.
However IMHO the Linux kernel has basically surpassed the FreeBSD kernel on most if not all counts, ie. journaled filesystems, SMP support, etc. (except stability ofcourse).
And this is probably due to the "chaotic" development style, read Linux's more evolutionary and less designed development process.
Obviously there are scalability problems with the current Linux development model, but also far far more development going on than in the FreeBSD kernel, so adopting the FreeBSD model is not necessarily feasible
> I believe the phrase is "credit where credit is due"
I think most people can agree that without the GNU tools, it is very unlikely that Linux would have existed today, or atleast been as succesful as it is. But GNU is not the only project which deserves credit, ex: Apache, Perl, XFree86 and countless others. Obvious we cannot name all of them everytime we mention Linux, so credit is implicitly given.
Furthermore saying GNU/Linux appears to imply that one supports / agrees with FSF, and not all Linux users do.
> Maybe I'm paranoid, but maybe RMS is not very enthusiastic about C++ support because GNOME would look even worse in comparison to KDE, once a good C++ compiler is available?
Paranoid, stupid?
> I think we need a lot more non-GNU involvment for gcc (gcc-foundation?) to get some fresh blood into this project. And if RMS doesn't allow that, we need a fork.
Cygnus?
> But of course, that's just my opinion, so flame me.
Maybe you should have kept your opinion to yourself, that is my opinion.
On the other hand, Linux has managed to surpass FreeBSD on basically all counts in only 10 years time, so the development model cant be all bad.
It is unfortunate that a bug like this slips through and ofcourse it should be avoided if possible. But if the price of avoiding situations like this is that the Linux kernel development slows to a crawl then I'd much rather keep the current system.
Could it be that the "Wild-West/Darwinist development methodology" of Linux has created a VM that is on par with or maybe surpassing FreeBSD's VM ??? If that is the case, I bet Matt Dillon would want to use his clue-bat on himself.
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atleast I found it very easy to get running and I had never used OpenLDAP before. After a quick test install, it took a few hours to roll out on all my servers and get all services to use LDAP for authentication. I havent experienced any problems.
However I havent been able to find a decent LDAP browser tool, I've used GQ a few times but mainly use the commandline tools. (there are some smbldap-tools on the idealx.org site)
There is an article in the danish Computerworld today about some of Denmark's largest companies, Grundfos, Danisco, Danfoss, Carlsberg og Novo Nordisk, considering suing Microsoft due to their new licencing scheme.
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Danfoss admits that they knowingly have tied themselves completely to the Windows platform as they believes (or believed) they would benefit most using Microsoft.
Carlsberg has considered switching to Sun or Linux but find it unrealistic due to cost of retraining. It is so much easier to sue, i guess.
Well, you can read the article here (in danish!!):
http://www.computerworld.dk/Default.asp?Mode=2&
However IMHO the Linux kernel has basically surpassed the FreeBSD kernel on most if not all counts, ie. journaled filesystems, SMP support, etc. (except stability ofcourse).
And this is probably due to the "chaotic" development style, read Linux's more evolutionary and less designed development process.
Obviously there are scalability problems with the current Linux development model, but also far far more development going on than in the FreeBSD kernel, so adopting the FreeBSD model is not necessarily feasible
I think most people can agree that without the GNU tools, it is very unlikely that Linux would have existed today, or atleast been as succesful as it is. But GNU is not the only project which deserves credit, ex: Apache, Perl, XFree86 and countless others. Obvious we cannot name all of them everytime we mention Linux, so credit is implicitly given.
Furthermore saying GNU/Linux appears to imply that one supports / agrees with FSF, and not all Linux users do.
Paranoid, stupid?
> I think we need a lot more non-GNU involvment for gcc (gcc-foundation?) to get some fresh blood into this project. And if RMS doesn't allow that, we need a fork.
Cygnus?
> But of course, that's just my opinion, so flame me.
Maybe you should have kept your opinion to yourself, that is my opinion.
It is unfortunate that a bug like this slips through and ofcourse it should be avoided if possible. But if the price of avoiding situations like this is that the Linux kernel development slows to a crawl then I'd much rather keep the current system.
And lets see what Moshe Bar wrote about the subject (read the last section of the article):
http://www.byte.com/documents/s=1436/byt20011024s0 002/1029_moshe.html
Could it be that the "Wild-West/Darwinist development methodology" of Linux has created a VM that is on par with or maybe surpassing FreeBSD's VM ??? If that is the case, I bet Matt Dillon would want to use his clue-bat on himself.
Maybe someone could direct you to some good introduction books for managing a linux machine.