H, On Friday 10 February 2006 08:34, houghi wrote: > On Fri, Feb 10, 2006 at 02:16:49PM +0100, Nicola -kOoLiNuS- Losito wrote: > > in my "vision" Flickr is not THE solution to that stuff, but a tool > > that has just right now many people subscribed in, and so i would > > like to aggregate the photos of SUSE stuff by people already in it > > (or that will sign in) in a "organized" group > > I can just speak about my personal view. I would not use it. If it is > Flickr, then it is not opneSUSE. That does not mean it does not have > a right to exist (cfr forums) it just is that it is not openSUSE.
This is another case where open source does not offer a solution. Any competent software engineer (or team of them) could produce a Flickr-like service, but fielding the storage and server farm to make it work is outside the open source funding model. > It is naturaly very fine to point it out as a posibilaty if openSUSE > does not provide in these needs. > > I personally would either use my own site or openSUSE to host things. > Much easier for me to use and no need for yet another login and > password on a site. Great. How many hundred gigabytes of backed-up, replicated RAID storage are you going to devote to image storage? How many load-balanced servers are you going to commit? How much rack space and Internet connectivity bandwidth in how many isolated data centers are you going to donate? > houghi Open source is not a religion which must exclude the infidels, it's an alternative mode of software development that complements commercial software and service vendors. There most definitely are things it cannot do or cannot do well. Randall Schulz --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
