Hello there ...
Qua, 2007-04-18 às 15:24 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] escreveu: > I would like to start a new sub-project called Debian4Business or perhaps > Debian-Office.I have a slight preference for the first name, but this is > discussable of course. a bit of background. Last week i emailed debian-desktop list to propose as lenny release goal to add a task called "enterprise-desktop" and also one called "enterprise-server", names are not important. I am just giving my support to this. > > I have a small company, that provides legal services. About 6 months ago (I > use > linux for more than 8 years already) all desktops are running Linux now. The > people using those desktops have no prior linux experience. I have tried > several > distributions, but with every distribution I see problems appear with the > people > that use it. These problem appear because no distribution is really focused on > business use within small and mid-sized companies. > > Of course there are some distro's with exactly this goal, however they are > usually commercial products/forks. Probably all very good distro's but also > awfully expensive, and that makes them not very interesting for small- and > mid-sized companies. > > I believe there is definetely a 'market' for a business oriented linux based > on > open source/GPL/Debian social-contract, maintained for and by it's users > instead > of a commercial base. The open source/GPL/DSC concept works for individuals, > so > why it wouldn't/couldn't work for businesses? I think the majoraty of debian's instalations are in corportive environments, server And/or desktops. So i think that debian should have the goal to give those users a better solution than the general one. > > My goal with this project is to create a CDD that provides it's users with the > tools they need to easily install and use the things a small and mid-sized > business needs in their working environment. This goes for both server and > desktop tasks. A small and mid-sized company often doesn't have a permanent > system manager, that's exactly why things have to be simple. Of course it > should > also include the common office tools, like an office package (openoffice), > email, > groupware, etc etc. My first proposal was to create 2 tasks in tasksel. We have desktop task, so we could add an enterprise-desktop task. My point was to provide centralized authentication and information, having something like libpam-ldap and libpam-mount installed and configured by debconf's interface. For -ldap is easy, just now, it just asks for the server, but -mount would mount server partitions as well as user's desktop preferences. Also, it would be given care to the tools and packages included. A cdd would be good for some first testing, but having it included in debian would be great. > > I would very much like to hear the opinions of the developer community. > The first -and very important- step to be taken is to form a group of people > that > support this goal and are willing to work on it. count with me. > > If there are no major objections I will start to get things going. > > Regards, > > > > Arjan van Eersel > ---- Dit bericht is verzonden via mijndomein.nl best regards Luis Matos -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]