Hello Am 29.10.2010 00:39, schrieb Terje J. Hanssen:
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. You're welcome ;-)
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? To have the option to select an installation with GUI is absolutely ok. I think that we need the option to install a gui for other reasons too. The list of packages i mentioned in my mail was just a draft proposal for our start.
But what i don't want is a desktop-discussion like at the openSUSE project a few month ago. A second point. In my opinion installing a GUI should not be the standard on a Linux-Server installation. Most servers i work with didn't have monitor, mouse and keyboard or KVM-console connected. Running a GUI by default is a waste of resources. WebYaST on the other hand is very interesting. Our own user- and administration-interface "invis portal" is web based.
Is there any documentation over package content and the pre-configurations that has been made for the invis server?
What we have is a documented setup-script and a collection of pre-configured configuration files. We have no written list of installed packages. I think, that i should work this out. Additional we install some third party software which is not packaged for openSUSE yet. The whole documentation of the project is a german wiki-page (http://wiki.invis-server.org).
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?
The main difference is that invis servers points to (very) small business companies without any IT-knowhow. This is a very big target group in germany and i think in other european countries as well. The other server products are mostly downscaled enterprise products which didn't fit the recommendations of small business companies. (It's difficult for me to explain this in english, i haven't enough practice... )
Terje J. Hanssen
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