October 2010 - openSUSE Invis - openSUSE Mailing Lists

Hardware suggestions
by Terje J. Hanssen 04 Nov '10

04 Nov '10

I have started to examine upgrade options for my available old ATX cabinet. There are upgrade kits from AMD and Intel, containing mainboard, CPU, memory and disks etc. If possible, I'll try to utilize existing hard disks. Now, what are the hardware suggestions (minimum and recommended) for a home server to be able to utilize the invis services? Is media streaming (video and audio) out of scope for this server? Terje J. Hanssen -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-invis+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-invis+help(a)opensuse.org

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Invis Appliance Draft Available
by Klaas Freitag 03 Nov '10

03 Nov '10

Hi, I today created a draft appliance of the Invis Server on openSUSE using SUSE Studio. You can download an image from http://susegallery.com/a/hG4x8R/klaas-invis-draft Note that this is just for experimenting and not meant to be a product or recommended solution at all. Its just to experiment, internal use only. _NO_ Production! The appliance is based on another appliance called "MiniSUSE" which comes with an light IceWM which I find handy to be able to open various XTerms. I tried to add all needed packages for Invis. The Invis install directory is located in roots homedir. Log in using the password 'Invis' for all users. The script sine needs to be called after the image was booted. It installed far, but I am not sure if it really succeeded. Hope you find that useful, have a nice weekend, Klaas -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-invis+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-invis+help(a)opensuse.org

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Re: [opensuse-invis] Let's start
by Terje J. Hanssen 29 Oct '10

29 Oct '10

Hello, My name is Terje J. Hanssen and I will welcome this new and interesting openSUSE server project. I'm not a very skillfull server sysadmin, and look forward to learn more from this project. As a user of openSUSE/SLES/OES2, and a tester of openSUSE, it might be of interest for me to test this openSUSE flavor as HO server, if possible. In my opinion, one of SUSE's/SLES's strengths also on the server side has always been the option to select between text and YaST gui interfaces. Of course pure text interface is important, but I would suggests to keep the option to select gui. Shouldn't finally WebYaST have a nice opportunity to be applied on this openSUSE server flavor? Is there any documentation over package content and the pre-configurations that has been made for the invis server? Beyond being free software, what will typically differ this openSUSE server flavor from the commercial Novell Open Workgroup Suite - Small Business Edition (NOWS-SBE) and i.e. from a competitor like the Ubuntu server? Terje J. Hanssen -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-invis+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-invis+help(a)opensuse.org

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Lets say Hi
by Jörg Stephan 29 Oct '10

29 Oct '10

Hello to all readers, i just saw the shedule of the talk at the osc, cause i wasnt able to be in Nürnberg so i read a bit on the invis webpage and i feel very interested in this project, so if i can help, here iam :-) my name is Jörg Stephan and iam working as an systemadministrator at an doaminregistrar in germany. In my spare time i adminsitrate my own opensuse servers, and trying to participate as good as i can in the opensuse community. So lets get started :-) Greets Jörg -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-invis+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-invis+help(a)opensuse.org

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what am I doing here?
by pb＠seat-1.com 28 Oct '10

28 Oct '10

We've been deploying our Open Source ERP IntarS mainly on Debian over the last 6 years. But recently I met Stefan and couldn't believe my eyes when he showed me how openSUSE has developed since then. So I thought, let's give it a try again and went to the openSUSE conference. And I liked it. Especially the Build-Service, SUSE Studio and the attitude or spirit of the people envolved. We're going for openSUSE now. Stefan has already successfully ported the install script of IntarS and we had it running on openSUSE. This will need some more polishing to get a package and a ISO Image or Distribution or VMWare Image in the end. How do Invis and IntarS fit together? We're in the ERP business, doing business consulting, migration, modelling, custom programming and support, deployment, configuration and of course improving our core Universal Application framework, since 1996. We don't do operating, hardware, printer-configuration, backups, configuring mailserver, faxserver, monitoring the OS and all that. At least we don't want. Instead we're seeking cooperation with local IT service providers (like fs productions). So we think it's a good idea to have the two systems integrated, forming a complete, ready to use SMB Appliance. -- mit freundlichen Gruessen/best regards Pirmin Braun seat-1 Software GmbH - Sinziger Str. 29a - 53424 Remagen +49(0)2642 308288 +49(0)163-6290887 - skype:pirminb Fax +49(0)2642 308626 http://www.seat-1.com pb(a)seat-1.com http://sourceforge.net/projects/intars Geschäftsführer: Pirmin Braun, Ralf Engelhardt Registergericht: Amtsgericht Coburg HRB3136 ein Unternehmen der MAX21 Gruppe - http://www.max21.de -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-invis+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-invis+help(a)opensuse.org

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Let's start
by ML 28 Oct '10

28 Oct '10

Hello, i think i've to introduce myself. I am Stefan Schaefer. me and Ines Armbrust foundet the project "invis Server" in June 2008. Since then we tried to get popularity four our project. Last act for getting popularity was my talk about invis Server on the openSUSE Conference ... and it worked. There was an immediate interest to our project and for a partnership between invis server and openSUSE. As a first result Klaas Freitag founded an openSUSE Subproject called "openSUSE invis Server" and this mailinglist. A few words about our project. The idea behind is that the most companies in germany (an other european countries) are small, very small (with less then 10 employes). These companies often have no sysadmins an no IT-knowhow as well. Most server products for small business companies are downscaled enterprise products which are not as easy to use as it should be in these companies. With invis server we try to build a server product specially for this target group. I agree with Klaas in what should be our first steps. We have to talk about the packages which we have to include in our new openSUSE distribution. In my opinion we should start with all packages of the openSUSE text based installation and additional the patterns "lamp_server, print_server, file_server, dhcp_dns_server, directory_server and mail_server". Some extra tools as mc, nmap, and so on would be nice. Other ideas? We maintain some further packages like "smbldap-tools" in our buildservice repo, we should include them to the "openSUSE invis server" distribution. Our first goal should be a bootable and installable mini-distribution. Next step could be to package third party software, which we use. All of thes products like our groupware "group-e" and our erp-systems "lx-erp" (presence) and "IntarS" (future) are open-source-products. I hope that we find a lot of interested people to discuss these points. regards Stefan -- www.invis-server.org Stefan Schäfer Vogelsbergstr. 27 63679 Schotten -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-invis+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-invis+help(a)opensuse.org

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A new Flavor: openSUSE Invis Server!
by Klaas Freitag 28 Oct '10

28 Oct '10

Hi, This mailinglist was created to get together and discuss the gory details how to create a successful openSUSE flavor called the openSUSE Invis Server. The Invis Server is a perfect solution for the small business use case. Stefan, the founder of the Invis Server [1] has already worked a lot, so there is almost everything there. We just need to do a bit of work to package everything together and get the thing flying. Please subscribe to the list and get into discussion now, and be prepared to make your hands dirty ;-) ! Thanks, Klaas [1] http://www.invis-server.org -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-invis+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-invis+help(a)opensuse.org

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