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 1HFZtL-0000BK-Ng for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 09 Feb 2007 17:50:36 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l19HnNbr007342; Fri, 9 Feb 2007 17:49:24 GMT Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l19HhQoj031897 for ; Fri, 9 Feb 2007 17:43:26 GMT Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6E23864C23 for ; Fri, 9 Feb 2007 17:43:26 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: -0.827 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.827 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=0.420, BAYES_00=-2.599, HTML_10_20=1.351, HTML_MESSAGE=0.001] Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id DD-3Fhnz0nLr for ; Fri, 9 Feb 2007 17:43:19 +0000 (UTC) Received: from nz-out-0506.google.com (nz-out-0506.google.com [64.233.162.235]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 477AE6501C for ; Fri, 9 Feb 2007 17:43:17 +0000 (UTC) Received: by nz-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id x7so906843nzc for ; Fri, 09 Feb 2007 09:43:17 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:mime-version:content-type; b=WAQMQZfWmKcWVrzobubjTfjtd7e/cT14McMqIby7G2GvLWlEtvD8D7h+cca/lxm6+ByUJNe6m6193MiFNeW72npivQ47ouf6ZMh7vt89actK/XQwVU+GzGvM3UhqYlQNkLhFyrb3UF39/nGiRgUyAfBx5qv24+YmS6Ilnyt5nNc= Received: by 10.114.210.2 with SMTP id i2mr5121093wag.1171042996538; Fri, 09 Feb 2007 09:43:16 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.114.25.19 with HTTP; Fri, 9 Feb 2007 09:43:16 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: Date: Fri, 9 Feb 2007 19:43:16 +0200 From: "Alexandru Mincu" To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-user] Putting gentoo to work :) 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 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_Part_26867_16160766.1171042996196" X-Archives-Salt: cb037a27-d333-466a-b813-6e452c3789f4 X-Archives-Hash: aece47ed0b19d3a2e0ccda9a329d747d ------=_Part_26867_16160766.1171042996196 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Hi guys, I have(or better may have) a project to build and maintain a company's network. I was thinking into proposing gentoo since it's got my heart, but I have some questions about which things should i use for a base installation. My setup will look like this: big server with 2 or 3 gigabit ethernet cards and lots of sata drives in a big raid array. disk less workstations with 512mb or 1gb of ram, nvidia or integrated video and a gigabit ethernet card. and of course a gigabit ethernet switch. 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. Things required: Email, Calendar sharing, IM, Office suite, other bullshit managers use to put you to work(suggestions accepted here) :) Web browsing, A content management system 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. 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? Now the nice part, What about the disk less clients? is there a way to keep a stable file system for all the workstations without requiring to copy all the base files for each workstation? It would be nice to be able to dynamical add workstations to the network without requiring admin intervention... >>From what I have seen in the gentoo diskless faq it suggested doing an separate dir for each client in the network.... The big questions are: What software/configurations would you use if you would want to do this with gentoo? What are the good points in using the system instead of using MS Windows (besides the money)? PS: Excuse my English. Thanks, Alexandru Mincu < mincua@gmail.com> Tel: +40745515505/+40723573761 ------=_Part_26867_16160766.1171042996196 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Hi guys,
I have(or better may have) a project to build and maintain a company's network.
I was thinking into proposing gentoo since it's got my heart, but I have some questions about which things should i use for a base installation.
My setup will look like this:
big server with 2 or 3 gigabit ethernet cards and lots of sata drives in a big raid array.
disk less workstations with 512mb or 1gb of ram, nvidia or integrated video and a gigabit ethernet card.
and of course a gigabit ethernet switch.

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.

Things required:
Email,
Calendar  sharing,
IM,
Office suite,
other bullshit managers use to put you to work(suggestions accepted here) :)
Web  browsing,
A content management system

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.

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?

Now the nice part,
What about the disk less clients? is there a way to keep a stable file system for all the workstations without requiring to copy all the base files for each workstation? It would be nice to be able to dynamical add workstations to the network without requiring admin intervention...
From what I have seen in the gentoo diskless faq it suggested doing an separate dir for each client in the network....

The big questions are:
What software/configurations would you use if you would want to do this with gentoo?
What are the good points in using the system instead of using MS Windows (besides the money)?

PS: Excuse my English.

Thanks,
Alexandru Mincu < mincua@gmail.com>
Tel: +40745515505/+40723573761
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