Re: [pgadmin-hackers] [HACKERS] PostgreSQL installation CD based on Morphix
We (Japan PostgreSQL User Group) have just created "PostgreSQL LiveCD" based KNOPPIX to promote PostgreSQL to newbies. It includes - PostgreSQL 7.4.1 - PHP 4.3.4 - Apache 1.3.29 - Tomcat 4.1.9 (but J2SDK is not included because of license.) - phpPgAdmin 3.2.1 - pgAdmin3 1.0.2 - phpbb - Full text search in these manuals Screen shot: http://www.postgresql.jp/~snaga/shot.png If you boot your machine with this CD-ROM, all of them are running and you can start web application development without any installation. We will introduce this CD-ROM on NET&COM 2004(Feb.4-6) at Tokyo. Jean-Michel POURE <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dear friends, > > In the past, there were several discussions in order to find suitable answers > for MS Windows users willing to install and run PostgreSQL. > > Some of you suggested that users should "install GNU/Linux over Windows". Not > so easy for the basic MySQL or Ms Windows user, who need technical > assistance ... and fear to destroy their machine. > > Therefore, I would like to draw some attention on the Morphix CD project from > http://sourceforge.net/projects/morphix. > > Morphix is an auto-bootable Debian GNU/Linux distribution based on Knoppix. > > What makes Morphix different is that the project has several graphical > installers and wizards in preparation (written in plain C, using GTK-2 > libraries and Glade-2) ... which could possibly be used to install GNU/Linux > and PostgreSQL tools over MS Windows. > > You can download a preview CD of Morphix from this address: > http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/morphix/MorphixCombined-Gnome-0.4-1.iso?download > > Except for the installer itself, the wizards are not yet available in the main > Morphix CD. To have a look at them, you will need to checkout from CVS > (http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/morphix) and open the files in > Glade-2. > > I also made some screenshots here: > > - morphixinstaller: once Morphix has booted in demo mode, you can use this > wizard to install Morphix on the disk. Screenshots: > http://developer.pgadmin.org/jean-michel/morphix/morphix_installer_step1.png > http://developer.pgadmin.org/jean-michel/morphix/morphix_installer_step2.png > http://developer.pgadmin.org/jean-michel/morphix/morphix_installer_step3.png > http://developer.pgadmin.org/jean-michel/morphix/morphix_installer_step4.png > http://developer.pgadmin.org/jean-michel/morphix/morphix_installer_step5.png > http://developer.pgadmin.org/jean-michel/morphix/morphix_installer_step6.png > http://developer.pgadmin.org/jean-michel/morphix/morphix_installer_step7.png > > - isomorphgui: graphical distribution maker (select the requested packages for > your distribution and burn the ISO). Screenshots: > http://developer.pgadmin.org/jean-michel/morphix/iso_morph_gui_1.png > http://developer.pgadmin.org/jean-michel/morphix/iso_morph_gui_2.png > > - partitionmorpher: resize partitions on the fly (GTK-2 interface to > libparted). Screenshots: > http://developer.pgadmin.org/jean-michel/morphix/partition_morpher_1.png > http://developer.pgadmin.org/jean-michel/morphix/partition_morpher_2.png > > IMHO opinion, there is a need to study the Morphix project in more details. > > Morphix could be a possible solution to the MS Windows migration problems. It > probably involves 50 times less work than migrating PostgreSQL to MS Windows > (and is a complete different project except for the fact that it could well > bring as much new users to PostgreSQL than a native Win port and is less > risky). > > The possible steps for such a project could be (just a guess): > > 1) Validate Morphixinstaller, isomorphgui and partitionmorpher wizards. These > wizards are still in early stages of development. They are developed by one > person, who would probably like to receive some help. > > 2) Create a wizard for PostgreSQL post-installation steps using GTK-2 and > Glade-2: configuration of hosts and authentication, tuning and optimization > of various parameters (Mainly a graphical interface to pg_hba.conf and > postgresql.conf). > > 3) Gather all known PostgreSQL related Debian packages, including pgAdmin III, > PhpPgAdmin, as well as PHP, Apache and report tools (and much more) and burn > Morphix-PostgreSQL CDs. > > There could be a "light PostgreSQL CD" as well as a "complete PostgreSQL CD". > > 4) Create a single website in 30 languages (http://installer.postgresql.org?) > dedicated to releasing the installation CD. > > Based on the pgAdmin experience, there could well be more than 50.000 > downloads every month, out of which 70% would be migrating from MS Windows to > GNU/Linux. > > Comments and ideas are welcome. I would like to help anyone interested in > becoming the lead of such a project. > > Best regards, > > > > > ---(end of broadcast)--- > TIP 7: don't forget to increase your free space map settings > -- NAGAYASU Satoshi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -
Re: [pgadmin-hackers] [pgsql-advocacy] [HACKERS] PostgreSQL installation CD based on Morphix
If you want to install to your hard drive, KNOPPIX installation script can help you. However, I think "without any installation" is more important for newbies. Any comments? Satoshi Nagayasu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > We (Japan PostgreSQL User Group) have just created "PostgreSQL LiveCD" > based KNOPPIX to promote PostgreSQL to newbies. It includes > > - PostgreSQL 7.4.1 > - PHP 4.3.4 > - Apache 1.3.29 > - Tomcat 4.1.9 (but J2SDK is not included because of license.) > - phpPgAdmin 3.2.1 > - pgAdmin3 1.0.2 > - phpbb > - Full text search in these manuals > > Screen shot: > http://www.postgresql.jp/~snaga/shot.png > > If you boot your machine with this CD-ROM, all of them are running and > you can start web application development without any installation. > > We will introduce this CD-ROM on NET&COM 2004(Feb.4-6) at Tokyo. > > Jean-Michel POURE <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Dear friends, > > > > In the past, there were several discussions in order to find suitable answers > > for MS Windows users willing to install and run PostgreSQL. > > > > Some of you suggested that users should "install GNU/Linux over Windows". Not > > so easy for the basic MySQL or Ms Windows user, who need technical > > assistance ... and fear to destroy their machine. > > > > Therefore, I would like to draw some attention on the Morphix CD project from > > http://sourceforge.net/projects/morphix. > > > > Morphix is an auto-bootable Debian GNU/Linux distribution based on Knoppix. > > > > What makes Morphix different is that the project has several graphical > > installers and wizards in preparation (written in plain C, using GTK-2 > > libraries and Glade-2) ... which could possibly be used to install GNU/Linux > > and PostgreSQL tools over MS Windows. > > > > You can download a preview CD of Morphix from this address: > > http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/morphix/MorphixCombined-Gnome-0.4-1.iso?download > > > > Except for the installer itself, the wizards are not yet available in the main > > Morphix CD. To have a look at them, you will need to checkout from CVS > > (http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/morphix) and open the files in > > Glade-2. > > > > I also made some screenshots here: > > > > - morphixinstaller: once Morphix has booted in demo mode, you can use this > > wizard to install Morphix on the disk. Screenshots: > > http://developer.pgadmin.org/jean-michel/morphix/morphix_installer_step1.png > > http://developer.pgadmin.org/jean-michel/morphix/morphix_installer_step2.png > > http://developer.pgadmin.org/jean-michel/morphix/morphix_installer_step3.png > > http://developer.pgadmin.org/jean-michel/morphix/morphix_installer_step4.png > > http://developer.pgadmin.org/jean-michel/morphix/morphix_installer_step5.png > > http://developer.pgadmin.org/jean-michel/morphix/morphix_installer_step6.png > > http://developer.pgadmin.org/jean-michel/morphix/morphix_installer_step7.png > > > > - isomorphgui: graphical distribution maker (select the requested packages for > > your distribution and burn the ISO). Screenshots: > > http://developer.pgadmin.org/jean-michel/morphix/iso_morph_gui_1.png > > http://developer.pgadmin.org/jean-michel/morphix/iso_morph_gui_2.png > > > > - partitionmorpher: resize partitions on the fly (GTK-2 interface to > > libparted). Screenshots: > > http://developer.pgadmin.org/jean-michel/morphix/partition_morpher_1.png > > http://developer.pgadmin.org/jean-michel/morphix/partition_morpher_2.png > > > > IMHO opinion, there is a need to study the Morphix project in more details. > > > > Morphix could be a possible solution to the MS Windows migration problems. It > > probably involves 50 times less work than migrating PostgreSQL to MS Windows > > (and is a complete different project except for the fact that it could well > > bring as much new users to PostgreSQL than a native Win port and is less > > risky). > > > > The possible steps for such a project could be (just a guess): > > > > 1) Validate Morphixinstaller, isomorphgui and partitionmorpher wizards. These > > wizards are still in early stages of development. They are developed by one > > person, who would probably like to receive some help. > > > > 2) Create a wizard for PostgreSQL post-installation steps using GTK-2 and > > Glade-2: configuration of hosts and authentication, tuning and optimization > > of various parameters (Mainly a graphical interface to pg_hba.conf and > > postgresql.conf). > > > > 3) Gather all known PostgreSQL related Debian packages, including pgAdmin III, > > PhpPgAdmin, as well as PHP, Apache and report tools (and much more) and burn > > Morphix-PostgreSQL CDs. > > > > There could be a "light PostgreSQL CD" as well as a "complete PostgreSQL CD". > > > > 4) Create a single website in 30 languages (http://installer.postgresql.org?) > > dedicated to releasing the installation CD. > > > > Based on the pgAdmin experience, there could well be more than 50.000 > > download
Re: [pgadmin-hackers] [pgsql-advocacy] [HACKERS] PostgreSQL installation CD based on Morphix
Le Vendredi 23 Janvier 2004 03:08, Satoshi Nagayasu a écrit : > If you want to install to your hard drive, KNOPPIX installation script > can help you. > However, I think "without any installation" is more important for > newbies. > Any comments? Dear Satoshi, Your Knoppix-based CD-ROM is a great way to promote PostgreSQL. My Debian workstation was installed using Knoppix. It worked like a charm without any problem until now. My point of view is that Knoppix text-based installation scripts are not enough user-friendly for most MS Windows users. This opinion comes from a self-study that I conducted visiting my neighbours in order to demonstrate and install Debian. My neighbours are mostly casual MS Windows users with no special background in computing. Some accepted to replace MS Windows with Debian, others did not. But all of them had problems with Knoppix text-based installation scripts. Therefore, my personal opinion is that Knoppix with good graphical installation wizards would 'rock'. This is how I turned to Morphix ... which is mostly based on Knoppix. The problem is that Morphix wizards are still very unstable. Now, if you allow it, I will contact you privately to propose for help the best I can ... Best regards, Jean-Michel ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 2: you can get off all lists at once with the unregister command (send "unregister YourEmailAddressHere" to [EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: [pgadmin-hackers] [pgsql-advocacy] PostgreSQL installation CD based on Morphix
On Sat, 24 Jan 2004, Satoshi Nagayasu wrote: > OK. > I've started working on the PostgreSQL-KNOPPIX English version. Satoshi ... Robert Bernier just reminded me that we currently have an English version sitting in our office ... Of course, I don't have it here with me, but maybe Robert can comment on what is on it before u spend alot of time recreating it? It might be something you two can collaborate on, if it doesn't contain everything your Japanese version already does? Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org) Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo!: yscrappy ICQ: 7615664 ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 9: the planner will ignore your desire to choose an index scan if your joining column's datatypes do not match
