Quoting Michael Peligro ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > I recommend using KDE 3.0 to Gnome and KDE 2.2. It's objprelink > optimizations have made it faster than ever. It now performs and feels > like a light window manager such as WindowMaker or Blackbox. If you > like using AbiWord and Gnumeric, don't fear. KDE can launch Gnome > programs as well.
Major, major congratulations to the KDE Project for pulling this off. They're really making their desktop compelling even for old curmudgeons like me. (Just don't try to take Window Maker away from me. ;-> ) Raul, RH provides KDE3 packages in RH 7.3, by the way. > Rick, which do you prefer as a network authentication method? NIS or > OpenLDAP? Oh, you _would_ ask that. It's a fair question, but a problematic one. Most people, for good and compelling reasons, adopt a "perimeter" security model, using things like filtering routers or application-level proxy gateways and hide relatively vulnerable machines and services behind the perimeter barrier. For historical reasons that would take too long to get into, I find it preferable to have all of my machines fully exposed to the raw Internet. Because of that, none of my machines trusts any of the others, nor do they trust the network. Accordingly, there's no single login mechanism or any form of coordinated authentication. In fact, there's deliberately as little coordination of security tokens as humanly possible. NIS works on Linux, but cripples system security. NIS+ doesn't really yet exist (but is awful, anyway). LDAP could and sometimes is made to work over SSL, which solves the traffic-sniffing problem, but still means that your hosts would end up trusting one another. If I were to go with a network authentication method such as you have in mind, that's probably what I'd do. My lecture notes on LDAP might be useful: http://linuxmafia.com/~rick/lecture-notes/ldap > Here are more useful links: > http://www.unixodbc.org/doc/OOoMySQL.pdf Heh! That's the same document that I'm mirroring. ;-> I just renamed it to give it a more-meaningful name. -- Cheers, If C gives you enough rope to hang yourself, then C++ give you enough Rick Moen to bind and gag your neighbourhood, rig the sails on a small ship, [EMAIL PROTECTED] and still have enough to hang yourself from the yardarm. _ Philippine Linux Users Group. Web site and archives at http://plug.linux.org.ph To leave: send "unsubscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To subscribe to the Linux Newbies' List: send "subscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
