Re: Earth Computing

2010-01-28 Thread Etienne Goyer
Alvin wrote: Why not Ubuntu? - ZFS (does not need much explanation) Not looking to make excuse, but just so you know, ZFS on Linux is unlikely to happen due to licensing issue: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZFS#Linux These run Jaunty because of the above bugs and because of a

Re: Earth Computing

2010-01-28 Thread Ante Karamatić
On 15.12.2009 13:40, Alvin wrote: - Helios, A commercial application to provide file and print sharing for Macintosh. Is there something wrong with netatalk? It's an open source application that provides file and print sharing. For OSX, AFP is deprecated anyway (and printing works much

Re: Earth Computing

2010-01-28 Thread Etienne Goyer
Ante Karamatić wrote: On 15.12.2009 13:40, Alvin wrote: - Helios, A commercial application to provide file and print sharing for Macintosh. Is there something wrong with netatalk? It's an open source application that provides file and print sharing. For OSX, AFP is deprecated anyway

Re: Earth Computing

2010-01-28 Thread Alvin
On Wednesday 27 January 2010 23:15:37 Dustin Kirkland wrote: On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 6:40 AM, Alvin i...@alvin.be wrote: ... This is a real-life scenario. Is it common? I don't know. It's not free of struggles as you can see. So, this is a plea for quality. Cloud Computing might be very

Re: Earth Computing

2010-01-28 Thread Alvin
On Thursday 28 January 2010 11:58:31 Etienne Goyer wrote: Ante Karamatić wrote: On 15.12.2009 13:40, Alvin wrote: - Helios, A commercial application to provide file and print sharing for Macintosh. Is there something wrong with netatalk? It's an open source application

Re: Earth Computing

2010-01-28 Thread Alvin
On Wednesday 27 January 2010 20:17:00 Joe McDonagh wrote: Alvin wrote: A lot of questions in the annual user survey concern cloud computing. I administer some small businesses and use Ubuntu in most of them. Maybe my biggest client will one day use a personal cloud, and I applaud the

Re: Earth Computing

2010-01-28 Thread Ante Karamatić
On 28.01.2010 14:01, Alvin wrote: - The product has been proven to be reliable - Searches are a lot faster (last time I checked). Well, I must admit that netatalk is one of most reliable services I have ever seen on UNIX. To be honest, I find it strange that someone is using anything else.

Re: Earth Computing

2010-01-28 Thread Etienne Goyer
Alvin wrote: I know. It's still the most useful filesystem around, and we want to use the best tools for the job. LVM is not as flexible as ZFS. The main objection I have against ZFS is that it does not have any recovery tool (or so I heard; correct me if I am wrong). As such, I would not

Re: Earth Computing

2010-01-28 Thread Jordan Erickson
Etienne Goyer wrote: *snip* Is LTSP not heavily dependant on NFS? Yes, as the read-only root file system. Security is not critical in this use-case. Actually, since Ubuntu 8.04 (or earlier?), The LTSP client filesystem uses NBD by default.

Re: Earth Computing

2010-01-28 Thread Etienne Goyer
Jordan Erickson wrote: Etienne Goyer wrote: *snip* Is LTSP not heavily dependant on NFS? Yes, as the read-only root file system. Security is not critical in this use-case. Actually, since Ubuntu 8.04 (or earlier?), The LTSP client filesystem uses NBD by default.

Re: Earth Computing

2010-01-27 Thread Joe McDonagh
Alvin wrote: A lot of questions in the annual user survey concern cloud computing. I administer some small businesses and use Ubuntu in most of them. Maybe my biggest client will one day use a personal cloud, and I applaud the efforts, but I can 't help but notice that other things are left

Re: Earth Computing

2010-01-27 Thread Dustin Kirkland
On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 6:40 AM, Alvin i...@alvin.be wrote: ... This is a real-life scenario. Is it common? I don't know. It's not free of struggles as you can see. So, this is a plea for quality. Cloud Computing might be very important, but please don't lose sight of the little guys who just

Earth Computing

2009-12-15 Thread Alvin
A lot of questions in the annual user survey concern cloud computing. I administer some small businesses and use Ubuntu in most of them. Maybe my biggest client will one day use a personal cloud, and I applaud the efforts, but I can 't help but notice that other things are left in the cold. The