Yes, this is a key point, being better than existing setups.
Imagine how it's done with Linux now: You have a preinstalled Linux,
say, dedicated server. Then you log into it using ssh, do aptitude
(or rpm, or whatever) install apache2, then install php5, then
install mysql. Then you go to /etc/apache2/ and start editing
apache.conf, go to /etc/apache2/conf.d, hack something there. Then it
doesn't work because it can't resolve fully qualified name, you go
to /etc/network, edit text files there, then go to /etc/resolv.d to
set correct DNS servers, then set up correct host name in a dozen of
different places.
That was just apache2. Then you proceed to mysql, edit hundreds of
other config files and watching logs simulteneously in /var/log.
I think in the modern world, a person should remotely login via a
graphics shell into Windows/ReactOS-alike desktop, and configure
stuff there using Control Panel! Install LAMP using our package
manager, finetune config using tools like WEBMIN and enjoy running
your server. The only thing preventing people from using that way now
because Windows costs real money and Linux is free.
I performed setups of Linux servers I think, hundreds of times, and
everytime I was bitching about it. Last time was a couple of days ago
when I was setting up a ZoneMinder server for 5th time, because
precious Ubuntu package manager sucked, the kernel didn't support my
capture card without guess what?! recompiling the "kirnel"!! And that
I had to increase default shared memory size (I spent hours searching
which line in which config to add for *ubuntu* to recognize that I
want shmmax to be increased), symbolically linking stuff so that
apache2 is happy and sees my zm directory.
Certainly ZoneMinder is not available for Windows because Windows
costs money and is proprietary. It's same reason I have to choose
Linux everytime I need a server.
If I had the option to use a much better, modern and free operating
system - I would not think even one second what to choose.
Did I convince you that ReactOS-based servers aren't that bad idea? :)
WBR,
Aleksey Bragin.
On Oct 23, 2010, at 1:21 PM, Olaf Siejka wrote:
How will you convince anyone that such setup on ReactOS is of any
worth to be used and what is more important - better to be used
over similar linux setups?
Right now we dont have enough manpower to keep testing ROS on a
most basic level (its over a week, or even more since i managed to
discover the broken resolution change switch... pretty basic,
huh?). Starting another target will either have us split our thin
resources over another goal (like arwinss did beforehand) so if we
dont have any more people, we will be forced to drop work on trunk
(our main goal) even futher.
Regards
2010/10/23 Aleksey Bragin <alek...@reactos.org>
Hi ReactOS friends and colleagues.
Webserver
- Network subsystem (mainly tcpip.sys driver, and some winsock
improvement)
- VNC support (future RDP support)
- Apache/MySQL/PHP support
- XAMPP with toolbox
- WEBMIN
Thin Client (LiveCD or BootCD)
- Re-port our MSTSC.EXE
- Local printing (USB/LPT printer support?)
Please give us your opinion and please also add possible ideas that
you have and think through what needs to get in place to see it
come to pass.
Yours sincerely,
Aleksey & Jan (Jaix)
through Jan
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