time to form some alliances

[Erik Walthinsen <omega@omegacs.net>]

It looks like some alliances are being formed, I think it's time we think 
seriously about which we want to make.  I am still heavily in favor of using 
RedHat as our base, but we have to take into account where it's going before 
we decide whether or not we want to stay close to it.

Linuxconf (from what little I know of it) is geared towards easing
administration tasks for people who know basically what's going on.  If that 
can be modified to do two basic things, give different levels of config 
options and work well with the auto-admin stuff we need to have, then there 
is no problem.  If not, we need to work with both RedHat and Jacques (if this 
deal goes through) to make sure that our goals are understood by both of 
them, and try to get things set up most efficiently for all our benefits.

I'm still stuck under school till Tuesday evening, but I will be getting 
*some* stuff done.  One of those will be installing rh5.0 on a spare 
partition on my laptop.  I'll try to get ahold of linuxconf, gnome, and other 
stuff to evaluate it.  Others, please do the same!!

TTYAL,
     Omega

------- Forwarded Message
Date: Fri, 5 Dec 1997 21:25:02 -0500 (EST)
From: Jacques Gelinas <jack@solucorp.qc.ca>
To: linuxconf announce list <linuxconf-announce@solucorp.qc.ca>
Subject: Linuxconf and RedHat: Some important news

On december 3 and 4, I visited RedHat software. To goal of the meeting was
to evaluate the possibility/interest of adapting Linuxconf so it becomes 
the system administration framework of future RedHat releases (which one, 
time will tell).

This meeting went very well. After reviewing various aspect of Linuxconf,
we came out with a list of things that needed to be addressed so this
would be possible (which includes some work on both side). One thing was
clear: Both party were interested in making that a reality. 

- --------------------------------------------------------
Jacques Gelinas (jacques@solucorp.qc.ca)
Linuxconf: The ultimate administration system for Linux.
see http://www.solucorp.qc.ca/linuxconf
new developments: remote GUI admin, multiple machines admin



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