From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1HFd3m-0005JY-7O for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 09 Feb 2007 21:13:34 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l19LBhcb005295; Fri, 9 Feb 2007 21:11:43 GMT Received: from aa011msr.fastwebnet.it (aa011msr.fastwebnet.it [85.18.95.71]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l19L5mBV029848 for ; Fri, 9 Feb 2007 21:05:48 GMT Received: from [37.1.3.90] (37.1.3.90) by aa011msr.fastwebnet.it (7.3.105.6) (authenticated as cyclopia) id 45ACEE6E014B42CE for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Fri, 9 Feb 2007 22:05:48 +0100 Message-ID: <45CCF354.2010804@gmail.com> Date: Fri, 09 Feb 2007 22:19:00 +0000 From: "b.n." User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.5.0.9 (X11/20070123) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Putting gentoo to work :) References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-MIME-Autoconverted: from 8bit to quoted-printable by robin.gentoo.org id l19LBhcp005295 X-Archives-Salt: eaeab085-6113-4fb6-8559-117959f6d8b5 X-Archives-Hash: 03f1de0d6faaf866eaaea3edd4e1b2e5 Alexandru Mincu ha scritto: > First of all let's start with the clients... > I am a Gnome fan and I think it is better and simpler to use, but them > if you have windows users that you want to put to use linux, kde might > be a better option... although this is a matter of taste I would accept > some suggestions(without killing each other here), bu please take in > consideration all the things i want to add. >=20 > Things required: > Email, > Calendar sharing, > IM, > Office suite, > other bullshit managers use to put you to work(suggestions accepted her= e) :) > Web browsing, > A content management system You should be a bit more clear. - What is the, let's say, noobness-level of users of the thin clients? Will they be scared by anything not exactly Windows-like or not? - What do you mean *exactly* for CMS? A web based CMS, for an internal blog for example? Is this centralized or maintained by users? Do you instead need something for mutual information sharing and deposit? (in this case, I'd advice for a Wiki) Or it is something local, user specific, to take notes etc.? (in that case, Tomboy or basKet could be nice apps) - Do you need connectivity with external Windows machines? MS Exchange servers? - Do you need to exchange data with MS Office users? - IM is fully internal or need interoperability with external apps? Which ones? Do you need VOIP? Only thing I can directly advice you is Firefox for web browsing (best support). For everything else, I don't know. A general advice could be to keep as much as possible applications belonging to the same desktop. I'm quite on the KDE side, and I think that Konqueror (the file manager), K3b and Kopete are truly superior apps that may make the difference in your case. > I also think that some eye candy would be gr8 to have ... I tried both > compiz and beryl, but none were stable for me... it's true i was using > nvidia's beta driers but anyway. have any of you tried compiz or beryl? > which one is really stable and ready to use for a company? Is the > Xgl+(compiz|beryl) variant stable? I for one really liked beryl's > features but it seems to be more unstable than compiz. I think compiz and beryl, in their current state, make little sense for such a corporate network. However I understand they can impress your boss in letting him think (rightly so, even if for partially wrong reasons) that you are installing a technically superior solution. Well, it seems currently Beryl is the one gaining momentum. The recent Wall plugin seems at the same time very useful and very visually impressive. If you are sure about going that way, stick to *really* useful plugins (basically the Expos=E8-like thing, I don't remember its name, and the Wall). About stability, I can't say. > Now for updates .. which profile do you think would better suit a > company .. should I use hardend gentoo? Is there a version of gentoo > that keeps things down with the upgrades to stable packages or I should > keep my own tree and sync only the stuff I want and test into it? I'd go for the second. Hardened gentoo could be an idea, but I truly don't know what kind of problems it can have -personally I would put a tight OpenBSD firewall between the server and the Internet. In every case, having a test machine where checking *every* package upgrade extensively should be a must. m. --=20 gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list