Re: Which RH or FC to install for company developer desktop?

2004-04-05 Thread linux-il
Tzafrir Cohen wrote:
3. Access CVS (through the Eclipse CVS plugin is the best GUI for this, 
so it might not be necessary to have a separate tool)


a GUI still can't do scripts. 
Whenever scripts are necessary I have cvs as-is. But when I do a commit
of new source code and want an easy way to see the difference from the
current CVS conveniently nothing (that I am aware) comes close to
Eclipse' synchronize with repository.


3. Access Exchange 2003 server (I already asked Ximian for a price offer 
for their connector to use with Evolution)


For mail you can use imap. Calendaring is more complicated.

Keep in mind that evolution currently has a problem displaying Hebrew.
Yes. At first your statement made me worried but then I realized that
I actually never use Hebrew at work.


4. Share disks with other UN*X and windows (NFS, Samba and remote CIFS 
mounts of course)
5. Maybe share user database (LDAP?)


NIS? winbind?
Winbind, I suppose.



Our sys admin is not quite cooperative on this front, so there are 
limitations on what exactly
can be done.

We already have CD's of RH 8 and RH9 at the office. We expect to see 
both of them at customer sites.


Why?

RH8 is already past its end-of-life. RH9 is nearing it. Can anybody here
attest to the quality of Fedora Legacy http://www.fedoralegacy.org/? 
Alternatively you may decide to do your own fixes, or to pay Progeny.

Keep in mind the inherent binary incompatibility between RH8 and RH9
(NPTL). 
Well, I'm not in direct contact with clients (our first Alpha will be
on AIX, of all things). I suppose that's what our sales peope heard from
clients.
Keep in mind that with RH9 you'll have problems demonstrating
bleeding-edge tools.
I'm aware of that, that's what triggered the question - FC seems
BLeeding edge (vs. leading edge), and RH 9 is missing many recent
improvements.
But why do you feel confined to use RH? Why not use your Debian, if
you're so familiar with it?
It should have a benefit for stability (all the packages come from one
source). As for usability: I leave that to you.
Again - nobody here except me knows Debian. We already have to deal with
RH and using Debian won't take the RH familiarity requirement away, it
will just add another environment for people to learn.
Thanks for your comments,

--Amos

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Re: Which RH or FC to install for company developer desktop?

2004-04-05 Thread Oded Arbel
On Monday 05 April 2004 08:41, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 Tzafrir Cohen wrote:
 3. Access CVS (through the Eclipse CVS plugin is the best GUI for this,
 so it might not be necessary to have a separate tool)
 
  a GUI still can't do scripts.

 Whenever scripts are necessary I have cvs as-is. But when I do a commit
 of new source code and want an easy way to see the difference from the
 current CVS conveniently nothing (that I am aware) comes close to
 Eclipse' synchronize with repository.

KDE's cervisia does a nice job of handling CVS, including graphical diffs, 
invoking editors while calling edit/unedit, log view (including graphical 
trees) and all sorts of stuff. it can be used as a standalone client or if 
you use Konqueror as your file manager it integrates nicely with it (you just 
browse to your working directory and click CVS view. next time you browser 
to that directory cervisia will automaticly take over).

If you're use Eclipse as an IDE and want to have all the CVS operations from 
with in the environment then by all means use Eclipse, you'll find no better 
tool (I use it that way myself), but if you just want to do some CVS 
operations then I hardly think firing up the memory eating monster that is 
Eclipse to be a very good idea.

 3. Access Exchange 2003 server (I already asked Ximian for a price offer
 for their connector to use with Evolution)

KDE has some integration with Exchange (Kmail using IMAP), including calender 
retreival and storage (Kalendar), address book lookups through LDAP 
(Kaddressbook) and some simple integration with Kontact and KMail's new 
groupware functionality. you'd need KDE 3.2 for that and that would mean 
getting FC.

 5. Maybe share user database (LDAP?)
 
  NIS? winbind?

 Winbind, I suppose.

I use Winbind from Samba 3 and its very easy to get it to authenticate against 
a Win2K PDC. I also suggest pam_mount which automatically mounts remote file 
systems on login using the login password - we have a file server with some 
often used shares and I find it very useful to have it automatically mounted.

 Again - nobody here except me knows Debian. We already have to deal with
 RH and using Debian won't take the RH familiarity requirement away, it
 will just add another environment for people to learn.

I would like to suggest Mandrake which has a somewhat RedHatish feel but is 
better in some areas that I found important (integeration with an almost all 
windows office environment is one thing - for example, you can tell it during 
installation that you want to authenticate logins against a windows domain 
and it will just work).

-- 
Oded
::..
If you want to travel around the world and be invited to speak at a lot of 
different places, just write a Unix operating system
-- Linus Torvalds

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Re: Which RH or FC to install for company developer desktop?

2004-04-04 Thread Ariel Biener
On Sat, 3 Apr 2004, guy keren wrote:

  We already have CD's of RH 8 and RH9 at the office. We expect to see
  both of them at customer
  sites.

 from stability point of view, you should install RH 9.0 - but it's a dead
 goat because of redhat's recent moves.

 i got my PC installed with fedora (fedora core I - with the patches that
 were available from redhat at the time). i use it for java development
 (althought i don't use an IDE yet...) and it works mostly stable. it's
 overloaded since i run on it something that was planned to be run on 3-4
 different machines, but it did not crash on me yet.

 it's open-office seems to be the version that doesn't support hebrew
 (althought i think it should - i think it's version 1.1.0 or soemthing
 similar - perhaps this is just a fonts problem?), but it shows the
 english documents written inside the company quite ok (until there are
 drawings in the documents - that's where it 'squashes' the drawing onto
 the text). i use mozilla for surfing, since i was too lazy to get a
 different browser there.

 since the machine has a pentium 4 with hyper-threading, i installed an SMP
 kernel and it now runs with '2 CPUs' - does windows XP does this
 out ofthe box, by the way? (i don't know since i didn't check).

 i was somewhat skeptic about finding RPMs for redora, or running
 commercial applications - but at least some things seem to work (such as
 vmware). i didn't yet manage to get the Java IDE (Idea's IntelliJ) running
 on it - thought i didn't try realy hard.

 i don't use any C++ IDE either - by my room-mate, which also runs fedora
 on his desktop, runs both IntelliJ (Java) and anjuta (C/C++) on his fedora
 with no noticeable problems.

  I should also be careful not to setup something too shaky if I want to
  convicne them to switch the
  entire office to Linux desktops.

 why do you want to do that? people should stick with what gives them their
 pleasure - unless this is an everyone must have the same platform kind
 of office.

 as for the issue of developing on windows and deploying on Unix - i've
 seen that somewhere, and that was part of what kept me away from that
 place...

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Re: Which RH or FC to install for company developer desktop?

2004-04-04 Thread Ariel Biener
On Sat, 3 Apr 2004, guy keren wrote:


 Hi,


   Sorry for the missfire earlier (pine ...).

 since the machine has a pentium 4 with hyper-threading, i installed an SMP
 kernel and it now runs with '2 CPUs' - does windows XP does this
 out ofthe box, by the way? (i don't know since i didn't check).

Yes, it does.

--Ariel

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Re: Which RH or FC to install for company developer desktop?

2004-04-03 Thread linux-il
guy keren wrote:
(i'm responding only because i didn't see the more qualified people
 respond to this yet)
Thanks. Anyone's experience counts.

from stability point of view, you should install RH 9.0 - but it's a dead
goat because of redhat's recent moves.
Yes, I learned this by now. But right now the feeling I get
is the FC is not stable enough, and that an installation of RH 9 should
be upgradable to FC once FC is more stable.
i got my PC installed with fedora (fedora core I - with the patches that
were available from redhat at the time). i use it for java development
(althought i don't use an IDE yet...) and it works mostly stable. it's
overloaded since i run on it something that was planned to be run on 3-4
different machines, but it did not crash on me yet.
Good to hear that.

I'm more interested in being able to count on the dist that
whatever I install/remove on it, it will still play and I won't
find myself learning to handle RPM hell (being a spoiled Debian
user I almost never had to deal with this :)).
it's open-office seems to be the version that doesn't support hebrew
(althought i think it should - i think it's version 1.1.0 or soemthing
similar - perhaps this is just a fonts problem?), but it shows the
english documents written inside the company quite ok (until there are
drawings in the documents - that's where it 'squashes' the drawing onto
the text). i use mozilla for surfing, since i was too lazy to get a
different browser there.
How practical would it be to install the OpenOffice binaries from
OpenOffice.org(.il)?
since the machine has a pentium 4 with hyper-threading, i installed an SMP
kernel and it now runs with '2 CPUs' - does windows XP does this
out of the box, by the way? (i don't know since i didn't check).
i was somewhat skeptic about finding RPMs for redora, or running
commercial applications - but at least some things seem to work (such as
vmware). i didn't yet manage to get the Java IDE (Idea's IntelliJ) running
on it - thought i didn't try realy hard.
I thought that FC was basically more or less what RH 9 was when FC came
out, so anything which runs on RH 9 should behave the same on FC. Is
this correct?
i don't use any C++ IDE either - by my room-mate, which also runs fedora
on his desktop, runs both IntelliJ (Java) and anjuta (C/C++) on his fedora
with no noticeable problems.
Good, thanks. Anjuta is what I plan to install too.

I should also be careful not to setup something too shaky if I want to
convicne them to switch the
entire office to Linux desktops.


why do you want to do that? people should stick with what gives them their
pleasure - unless this is an everyone must have the same platform kind
of office.
Programmers here are payed to develop, not to administrate their
systems. The single system admin we have won't be able to support
just anything that a programmer wants to install on his system, and
setting a common standard in a workplace are still a good thing.
As for moving people over to Linux - I expect our workplace would
eventually save a few thousands of dollars on MS licenses from doing
this.
as for the issue of developing on windows and deploying on Unix - i've
seen that somewhere, and that was part of what kept me away from that
place...
The managers considered using Linux as a desktop for programmers almost
a year ago when we just startted working there but decided that it's too
much hussle at the time to inter-operate with the Windows which had to
be used by secretaries of another body to which we are connected.
Now that we have a dedicated sysadmin and our networks are pretty much
separated the situation might be more ripe for an all-Linux network.
--Amos

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Re: Which RH or FC to install for company developer desktop?

2004-04-03 Thread Gil Freund
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi,

I got a chance to install Linux on my office desktop (next to Windows 
XP, for now).
Do you have VMware? This can be very handy to display several Linux 
environments side by side.
I'd like to install something which will impress them the most with 
stability and usability,
and mostly as a developer station.

I expect to need it for:
1. Develop in Java (we already have an Eclipse-based full environment)
Which is also available in Linux
2. Develop in C++ (right now development is done on VC++ and only builds 
are done on
Linux/Solaris/AIX)
3. Access CVS (through the Eclipse CVS plugin is the best GUI for this, 
so it might
not be necessary to have a separate tool)
Ditto
3. Access Exchange 2003 server (I already asked Ximian for a price offer 
for their connector
to use with Evolution)
Exchange 2003 also has a Web interface which is nice, and works well 
even in non-ie environment.
4. Share disks with other UN*X and windows (NFS, Samba and remote CIFS 
mounts of course)
A little more information is required here. Are you looking for a 
Network Neighborhood style environment or a more unix style mount points?
5. Maybe share user database (LDAP?)
Linux LDAP clients can connect to AD. Mandrake, for one, can also use AD 
for user management out of the box.
Our sys admin is not quite cooperative on this front, so there are 
limitations on what exactly
can be done.
Can you say more about his/her concerns?
We already have CD's of RH 8 and RH9 at the office. We expect to see 
both of them at customer
sites.
I would not put too much emphasis in this point. The clients would most 
likely be using Linux on their production servers, whereas you are 
looking for a desktop environment.

But I though that maybe I can use Fedora Core for development station - 
can anyone compare
it vs. RH? Can I try the just released FC2 or should I still stay awat?
Is this a cost issue? Can you get someone in your management to fork out 
money for SuSE or Sun's desktop? If you are limited to the free (as in 
beer) linux, Mandrake or Fedora seems the first options.
If look and feel is the issue, then any distro will do.
I'd like the environment to demo the best features Linux desktop has to 
offer today, but I suppose
I should also be careful not to setup something too shaky if I want to 
convicne them to switch the
entire office to Linux desktops.
Evangelisms! Amen to that, brother, do I hear you say hallelujah?! 
Praise the penguin!
Thanks,

--Amos



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Re: Which RH or FC to install for company developer desktop?

2004-04-03 Thread linux-il
Gil Freund wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Hi,

I got a chance to install Linux on my office desktop (next to Windows 
XP, for now).
Do you have VMware? This can be very handy to display several Linux 
environments side by side.
No we don't have VMware. What do I need several linux environments for?
Anyway - shouldn't I be able to load several sub-linux under User-mode
Linux?

I'd like to install something which will impress them the most with 
stability and usability,
and mostly as a developer station.

I expect to need it for:
1. Develop in Java (we already have an Eclipse-based full environment)
Which is also available in Linux
I know.


2. Develop in C++ (right now development is done on VC++ and only 
builds are done on
Linux/Solaris/AIX)
3. Access CVS (through the Eclipse CVS plugin is the best GUI for 
this, so it might
not be necessary to have a separate tool)
Ditto

3. Access Exchange 2003 server (I already asked Ximian for a price 
offer for their connector
to use with Evolution)
Exchange 2003 also has a Web interface which is nice, and works well 
even in non-ie environment.
Ah ok. Forgot about that.


4. Share disks with other UN*X and windows (NFS, Samba and remote CIFS 
mounts of course)
A little more information is required here. Are you looking for a 
Network Neighborhood style environment or a more unix style mount points?
Both. We use Samba to inter-connect windows with UNIX but also NFS to
share unix home directories.

5. Maybe share user database (LDAP?)
Linux LDAP clients can connect to AD. Mandrake, for one, can also use AD 
for user management out of the box.

Our sys admin is not quite cooperative on this front, so there are 
limitations on what exactly
can be done.


Can you say more about his/her concerns?
In private. But generally the bottom line is that I am not completly
free to do just anything on the net.

We already have CD's of RH 8 and RH9 at the office. We expect to see 
both of them at customer
sites.


I would not put too much emphasis in this point. The clients would most 
likely be using Linux on their production servers, whereas you are 
looking for a desktop environment.
Yes, but people already have to deal with these environments on a daily
basis, so anything else I introduce will have to come in addition to
them, not replace them.

But I though that maybe I can use Fedora Core for development station 
- can anyone compare
it vs. RH? Can I try the just released FC2 or should I still stay awat?


Is this a cost issue? Can you get someone in your management to fork out 
money for SuSE or Sun's desktop? If you are limited to the free (as in 
beer) linux, Mandrake or Fedora seems the first options.
I think there is a cost issue here as well. Management is very cost
concience (that's a main reason they looked at Linux for the desktop in
the first place).
If look and feel is the issue, then any distro will do.
Again - we have to deal with RH8/9 anyway. Other distros will just add
more noise to handle.

I'd like the environment to demo the best features Linux desktop has 
to offer today, but I suppose
I should also be careful not to setup something too shaky if I want to 
convicne them to switch the
entire office to Linux desktops.
Evangelisms! Amen to that, brother, do I hear you say hallelujah?! 
Praise the penguin!

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Re: Which RH or FC to install for company developer desktop?

2004-04-03 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Thu, Apr 01, 2004 at 11:33:15AM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 Hi,
 
 I got a chance to install Linux on my office desktop (next to Windows 
 XP, for now).
 I'd like to install something which will impress them the most with 
 stability and usability, and mostly as a developer station.
 
 I expect to need it for:
 1. Develop in Java (we already have an Eclipse-based full environment)
 2. Develop in C++ (right now development is done on VC++ and only builds 
 are done on
 Linux/Solaris/AIX)
 3. Access CVS (through the Eclipse CVS plugin is the best GUI for this, 
 so it might not be necessary to have a separate tool)

a GUI still can't do scripts. 

 3. Access Exchange 2003 server (I already asked Ximian for a price offer 
 for their connector to use with Evolution)

For mail you can use imap. Calendaring is more complicated.

Keep in mind that evolution currently has a problem displaying Hebrew.

 4. Share disks with other UN*X and windows (NFS, Samba and remote CIFS 
 mounts of course)
 5. Maybe share user database (LDAP?)

NIS? winbind?

 
 Our sys admin is not quite cooperative on this front, so there are 
 limitations on what exactly
 can be done.
 
 We already have CD's of RH 8 and RH9 at the office. We expect to see 
 both of them at customer sites.

Why?

RH8 is already past its end-of-life. RH9 is nearing it. Can anybody here
attest to the quality of Fedora Legacy http://www.fedoralegacy.org/? 
Alternatively you may decide to do your own fixes, or to pay Progeny.

Keep in mind the inherent binary incompatibility between RH8 and RH9
(NPTL). 

 
 But I though that maybe I can use Fedora Core for development station - 
 can anyone compare
 it vs. RH? Can I try the just released FC2 or should I still stay awat?
 
 I'd like the environment to demo the best features Linux desktop has to 
 offer today, but I suppose
 I should also be careful not to setup something too shaky if I want to 
 convicne them to switch the
 entire office to Linux desktops.

Keep in mind that with RH9 you'll have problems demonstrating
bleeding-edge tools.

But why do you feel confined to use RH? Why not use your Debian, if
you're so familiar with it?

It should have a benefit for stability (all the packages come from one
source). As for usability: I leave that to you.

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Re: Which RH or FC to install for company developer desktop?

2004-04-03 Thread Gil Freund
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

[snip]
No we don't have VMware. What do I need several linux environments for?
Anyway - shouldn't I be able to load several sub-linux under User-mode
Linux?
It's just that VMware images are very portable and allow for rollbacks. 
It's just a convenience.

[snip]
Exchange 2003 also has a Web interface which is nice, and works well 
even in non-ie environment.


Ah ok. Forgot about that.
As a side note, are Pocket PC's and Palms an issue?

[snip]
Can you say more about his/her concerns?


In private. But generally the bottom line is that I am not completly
free to do just anything on the net.
Well, no sys admin in his/her right mind would let a developer loose in 
his/her network
My question is more to the effect, can way be found to do this *with* 
the sys admin, rather then *against* him/her?

[snip]


Yes, but people already have to deal with these environments on a daily
basis, so anything else I introduce will have to come in addition to
them, not replace them.
Well, you already have separate coding and build environments. Even 
using Debian / Slackware / Gentoo would be closer to the build 
environment then Windows, or am I missing something?

[snip]

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Re: Which RH or FC to install for company developer desktop?

2004-04-03 Thread Yosi Markovich
From: guy keren [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Which RH or FC to install for company developer desktop?
Date: Sat, 3 Apr 2004 12:02:31 +0200 (IST)
(i'm responding only because i didn't see the more qualified people
 respond to this yet)
snip

since the machine has a pentium 4 with hyper-threading, i installed an SMP
kernel and it now runs with '2 CPUs' - does windows XP does this
out of the box, by the way? (i don't know since i didn't check).
Yes

i don't use any C++ IDE either - by my room-mate, which also runs fedora
on his desktop, runs both IntelliJ (Java) and anjuta (C/C++) on his fedora
with no noticeable problems.
Ohhh, right, please tell Etay I said hi.

Yosi

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Re: Which RH or FC to install for company developer desktop?

2004-04-02 Thread guy keren

(i'm responding only because i didn't see the more qualified people
 respond to this yet)

On Thu, 1 Apr 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 I got a chance to install Linux on my office desktop (next to Windows
 XP, for now).
 I'd like to install something which will impress them the most with
 stability and usability,
 and mostly as a developer station.

 I expect to need it for:
 1. Develop in Java (we already have an Eclipse-based full environment)
 2. Develop in C++ (right now development is done on VC++ and only builds
 are done on
 Linux/Solaris/AIX)
 3. Access CVS (through the Eclipse CVS plugin is the best GUI for this,
 so it might
 not be necessary to have a separate tool)
 3. Access Exchange 2003 server (I already asked Ximian for a price offer
 for their connector
 to use with Evolution)
 4. Share disks with other UN*X and windows (NFS, Samba and remote CIFS
 mounts of course)
 5. Maybe share user database (LDAP?)

 Our sys admin is not quite cooperative on this front, so there are
 limitations on what exactly
 can be done.

 We already have CD's of RH 8 and RH9 at the office. We expect to see
 both of them at customer
 sites.

from stability point of view, you should install RH 9.0 - but it's a dead
goat because of redhat's recent moves.

i got my PC installed with fedora (fedora core I - with the patches that
were available from redhat at the time). i use it for java development
(althought i don't use an IDE yet...) and it works mostly stable. it's
overloaded since i run on it something that was planned to be run on 3-4
different machines, but it did not crash on me yet.

it's open-office seems to be the version that doesn't support hebrew
(althought i think it should - i think it's version 1.1.0 or soemthing
similar - perhaps this is just a fonts problem?), but it shows the
english documents written inside the company quite ok (until there are
drawings in the documents - that's where it 'squashes' the drawing onto
the text). i use mozilla for surfing, since i was too lazy to get a
different browser there.

since the machine has a pentium 4 with hyper-threading, i installed an SMP
kernel and it now runs with '2 CPUs' - does windows XP does this
out of the box, by the way? (i don't know since i didn't check).

i was somewhat skeptic about finding RPMs for redora, or running
commercial applications - but at least some things seem to work (such as
vmware). i didn't yet manage to get the Java IDE (Idea's IntelliJ) running
on it - thought i didn't try realy hard.

i don't use any C++ IDE either - by my room-mate, which also runs fedora
on his desktop, runs both IntelliJ (Java) and anjuta (C/C++) on his fedora
with no noticeable problems.

 I should also be careful not to setup something too shaky if I want to
 convicne them to switch the
 entire office to Linux desktops.

why do you want to do that? people should stick with what gives them their
pleasure - unless this is an everyone must have the same platform kind
of office.

as for the issue of developing on windows and deploying on Unix - i've
seen that somewhere, and that was part of what kept me away from that
place...

-- 
guy

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Which RH or FC to install for company developer desktop?

2004-04-01 Thread linux-il
Hi,

I got a chance to install Linux on my office desktop (next to Windows 
XP, for now).
I'd like to install something which will impress them the most with 
stability and usability,
and mostly as a developer station.

I expect to need it for:
1. Develop in Java (we already have an Eclipse-based full environment)
2. Develop in C++ (right now development is done on VC++ and only builds 
are done on
Linux/Solaris/AIX)
3. Access CVS (through the Eclipse CVS plugin is the best GUI for this, 
so it might
not be necessary to have a separate tool)
3. Access Exchange 2003 server (I already asked Ximian for a price offer 
for their connector
to use with Evolution)
4. Share disks with other UN*X and windows (NFS, Samba and remote CIFS 
mounts of course)
5. Maybe share user database (LDAP?)

Our sys admin is not quite cooperative on this front, so there are 
limitations on what exactly
can be done.

We already have CD's of RH 8 and RH9 at the office. We expect to see 
both of them at customer
sites.

But I though that maybe I can use Fedora Core for development station - 
can anyone compare
it vs. RH? Can I try the just released FC2 or should I still stay awat?

I'd like the environment to demo the best features Linux desktop has to 
offer today, but I suppose
I should also be careful not to setup something too shaky if I want to 
convicne them to switch the
entire office to Linux desktops.

Thanks,

--Amos



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