I can understand the frustration that some have with some of these development issues, however I would like to say that many of the people that I know that are running the e-smith server have need of the modules that have not yet been ported to the newer kernel.
With that said, The cost of hardware is so phenominally cheap nowadays, what is wrong with a simple strategy of using SME at the front door on a cheap 586 with a couple of drives and pci network cards and then putting a high-end, latest and greatest redhat/whatever server behind that to handle all the other connectivity and email issues that seem to drive so many people a little batty? For example, Here at my home I have a dual processor (older system - 233 MHz) on the backend running Redhat 7.2 as well as a Dell 600MHz MS Small Business Server. Admittedly, the MS box is overkill for home use, but it was a gift from my former emploer (the op sys, not the computer) and it alleviates many problems with W2K connectivity. All play nice together and my uptimes with the basic, extremely stable, SME box are excellent and all the systems behind the SME server play nice. It also gives me a nice development platform when I have the time to play around. (Being a full-time returning University student after many years in the work force ain't easy) Just a thought. Am I off-base here? Please don't hesitate to comment or give me hell if you wish to do so. Regards, John C. Darrell May wrote: >Hsing-Foo Wang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > >>Hi Darrell, >> >>Maybe High Availability is getting more interesting to _prevent_ this >>kind of situations. >>What do you think? >> > >HA has it's place. Unfortunately this is more geared to corporate >enterprise. For the typical SME user, HA is overkill. A journalized file >system would probably have recovered without incident. > >I'm quite perplexed why Mitel is not moving forward with a newer kernel and >journalized file system. Shad Lords has done a lot of the ground work and >has released an iso that is a great starting point. It seems there are now >answers to all outstanding new kernel issues. > >I see Mitel's competitors already moving ahead of Mitel. For example, see >the Taurus server from http://celestix.com or http://clarkconnect.org which >released v1.0 May 20th. In fact the ClarkConnect 'BlackBox Platform' (under >development) is worth keeping an eye on. > >It would be even nice if Mitel took a leadership position and actually >directed development with the community. We might be able to at least keep >up with the competition if we all worked together. > >Regards, > >-- >Darrell May >DMC Netsourced.com >http://netsourced.com >http://myEZserver.com > > >-- >Please report bugs to [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Please mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] (only) to discuss security issues >Support for registered customers and partners to [EMAIL PROTECTED] >To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Archives by mail and http://www.mail-archive.com/devinfo%40lists.e-smith.org > -- Please report bugs to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] (only) to discuss security issues Support for registered customers and partners to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives by mail and http://www.mail-archive.com/devinfo%40lists.e-smith.org
