"ReactOS server edition with no GUI, everything is done remotely" (this was an ancient idea of mine) *cough*
On Sat, Oct 23, 2010 at 6:19 PM, Aleksey Bragin <alek...@reactos.org> wrote: > 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 >> _______________________________________________ >> Ros-dev mailing list >> Ros-dev@reactos.org >> http://www.reactos.org/mailman/listinfo/ros-dev >> > > _______________________________________________ > Ros-dev mailing list > Ros-dev@reactos.org > http://www.reactos.org/mailman/listinfo/ros-dev > > > > _______________________________________________ > Ros-dev mailing list > Ros-dev@reactos.org > http://www.reactos.org/mailman/listinfo/ros-dev >
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