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our school is just now formulating plans for a move to total open
source, beginning with our servers. I am trying to steer them away
from Java (not open) and zope/plone. the latter because it involves
installing another server aside Apache2 and involves using python, a
lesser known language with fewer persons out there knowing it. We are
also trying to solve our user applications with software that uses
postgresql not mysql(no longer free and broken) and in general follows
the LAPP model -- Linux 2.6.8, with XFS (at least until Reiser4 doesn't
break apps), Apache 2, Postgressql and PHP. We are also looking at
moodle and ilias for some long distance learning modules,
Opengroupware.org, projekt, and it appears drupal CMS. Twiki and the
Wikipedia series. Since we have 130 Dells it doesn't make sense to use
LTSP, but we are giving out knoppix/gnoppix CDs. Our approach is
minimalist -- go with a distro that you control, not a commercial one
you don't control, like redhat. So we may be building a fork of
gentoo, with only the stuff on the disks that are directly relevant to
the students. garry saddington wrote: On Friday 08 October 2004 15:07, troy@banther-trx.homeunix.com wrote: |