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On Jun 2, 6:09pm, "David L. Potter" wrote:
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} In fact there have been considerable deliberations about where we
} should put what... I'll try to lay out a couple of the guiding
} principles...
}
} 1) Wheter it's for demonstration purposes, or an installation that will
} become a production CSuite server at some time in the future... we
} have to expect that CSuite may/will be installed on an already functioning
} system which is currently using some/all of the systems/packages included
} in the CSuite install... GP#1 we don't want to muck up somebody's
} perfectly good system! (if we can help it...;-)
This is a very good principal which I support. This certainly
won't be changed by me. Currently, CSuite does a very good job of not
messing up people's systems. The only place where it falls down is
that it replaces the installed version of sendmail with a link to its
own version of zmailer.
} As a result our mailer, httpd, ftpd, etc are installed under CS_ROOT...
} UNLESS this 'guiding principal' is overturned, all CSuite files will
I won't support any effort to do this.
} 2) Although Linux (and currently Redhat) is the primary OS development
} package we want to ensure that CSuite can be installed and setup under
} Solaris and other OS's.
Again, this is a very good principal that I like and won't support
any effort to overturn it.
} We started out with Debian Linux and we could switch again if reason
} presents itself. We don't want to get caught up with thinking that Redhat
Although, I would like to discuss this more fully, I don't have
the time right now. What I would really like to see is CSuite move to
be distributed on one of the *BSD's. The reason is simple, the BSD
codebase is far better. A simple proof of this is to just look at the
number of articles on BUGTRAQ (one every few months for any of the
BSD's versus one every few days for the various Linux distribution).
Not to mention the "brown bag" release. I would probably recommend
FreeBSD (although I personally use NetBSD) because they have spent a
lot more time on ease of installation/admin, so it is easier for new
users. Failing this, a move to one of the new secure Linux
distributions which have popped up would be good.
}-- End of excerpt from "David L. Potter"
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