There was a time when Mandrake generated a lot of excitement and talk within the Linux community. The first distro to use egcs, compiling the binaries for Pentium class processors. Then the first to put a lot of focus on first time Linux useres by developing simple to use wizards and control panel applets (among [...]
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During the past few weeks, I’ve had opportunity to install more than my fairshare of GNU/Linux distributions. Indeed, likely I installed more distributionsthe last three months than the prior 10+ years of using GNU/Linux. The distributions installed are: cAos i386, x86_64 CentOS 3 i386, x86_64 CentOS 4 i386, x86_64 Fedora Core 1,2,3,4,5 i386, x86_64 (for [...] At work, I’m in charge of putting together two “massive” VMWare servers for developers, QA and tech support. These servers will be duplicates of each other and are using the free version of VMWare server. Each server will have 5 VMWare guest installations of every operating system we support, not counting MS Windows. That’s about [...] One thing really needed in the Linux space is a corresponding setup like MS Small Business Server. For those unfamiliar with SBS, here are some quick bullets: Windows Server 2003 Exchange ISA Easy remote access to desktop (Remote Web Workplace), Email (Outlook Web Access), Intranet files, and more Inexpensive (USD$600 for 5 clients) Very well [...] Zimbra Requirements: 512 MB RAM – base 3 GB HDD space – space RHEL 4, or Fedora Core 3 (likely any GNU/Linux distro would work) Hula Requirements: 10 MB RAM / 128 MB RAM (depends upon configuration) – Base 60 MB HDD space – base RHEL AS 3, or SLES 9 (likely any GNU/Linux distro [...] |
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