You list looks great, Adam. Here is my proposal (RFC): E-Smith-Anvil: (A fictitious future project) The root project from which all e-smith "distributions" or "cd-roms" derive. E-Smith-Anvil is all-inclusive of features, it has all the current e-smith features plus as many user contributions and additions as the project can pack in: many server features including NFS server (Network attached storage) & SMB server, an advanced apache configuration (with hundreds of PHP,perl,SSL,etc. modules loaded), advanced e-mail server, advanced mail server, etc., etc., etc. (Adam: yours & my list goes here) Then, e-smith tags only certain parts of the above features (RPMS, templates, servers, UI extensions, etc parts of the package) for inclusion in the "Official E-smith server and gateway CD-ROM". Of which there could be several: a minimal, a maximal (everything included), and a specialized (e.g. NAS only). Thus, the users could also pick out their own feature set (such as what one would need for NAS) and make a distribution out of that. What do you guys think? Technically possible? Politically possible? It allows for a minimum of features (for specialized uses), or a general collection of features (typical e-smith server and gateway), or a great collection of features (for all kinds of apache servers and etc.). S, M, L, XL, XXL, etc. :-) I hope we can get some discussion going anyway. -Dan At 07:13 PM 2/27/2001 -0800, Adam Sleight wrote: >dream list for E-Smith version 9.0...(actually none of these might fit into >e-smith philisophy..so if not just ignore some of them or all of them) > >--some basic packages...streaming mp3 icecast (top priority ..hehe) >--PHPMyAdmin (web interface for mysql) >--IDE.PHP (web interface for programming and test PHP code) >http://www.ekenberg.se/php/ide/ >--Mailman mailing list manager (webbased user can manage their subscription) >http://www.list.org/ > > >--- Email improvements >Choice of using mdir (current...file for each message) or mbox (one file per >folder) >Most of the others I suppose will have to be suggested to the IMP/Horde team >such as: >Filters to discard incoming viruses based on Subject header >Email Attachment size limit >quotas (if implemented with IMAP..need notification when x% full) >SMTP Sending, Waiting, Reading monitoring via web interface >Ability to reject or retry messages waiting in the queue. > > >E-smith NAS $600 or $800 whatever + hardware >Will E-smith ever venture towards NAS? Perhaps as a separate E-smith NAS >distro? >--- NAS (networked attached storage) >LVM (logical volume manager) >RAID 5 (hot swapping depending on hardware and SCA drives) >2.4 with reiserfs or another journaling ext3, xfs >disc quotas >improved backup with selective file restore >(dreaming) snapshots >NFS (this doesn't work with the tight security currently ..you've mentioned) > >Looking to purchase a NAS sometime this year... >Maxattach & Snapserver can't remotely backup 240GB across a LAN... >http://www.connex.com/ $20,000+ looks semi ok..not that great >http://excelcdrom.com/ $14,000 no journaling or snapshots >http://www.netapp.com/ $23,000 SMB and with NFS $30,000 journaling, snapshots >http://www.raidzone.com/ $9,000 >like the best so far is procom >http://www.procom.com/ $23,000 SMB/NFS, journaling, snapshots > >So if e-smith $600 with nice journaling and quotas it would be decent. I know >could use Mandrake 7.2 for journaling and quotas with webmin but it's not as >slick as e-smith imo. >Then for a 2U unit with SCSI drives and RAID adapter $4,000 to $6,000 one >would >have a slick NAS server...or even a $2,000 IDE drives would work. With a nice >backup software. > >Backup Software.... >I'm tried tons on linux and these my observations >Arkeia (motif) hard as heck to configure but seems reliable. >BRU-backup tried their beta with webmin but was impressed at all. >Lonestar ....had major config problems with demo...not impressed >Time Navigator Quadratec spent 3+ hours on the phone with support >configuring a >$5,000 demo...way too complicated...and I thought Arkeia was difficult...holy >cow. > >So it seems like most corporations are running Veritas (Backupexec) on NT >platform. When is a good..easy to use backup software for linux that supports >LTO 200MB tapes drives going to become available I ask this country? > >-- >This list is archived >To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dan Browning, Cyclone Computer Systems, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
