[WBEL-users] Using WB for Enterprise level Networks

[Dominic Iadicicco]

  Tom,


Believe it or not, I am still running a RH9 Samba server that I have 
updated myself alittle, but it runs great. I am worried that the time 
has come to make the upgrade. However having a mixed environment of RH9 
Fedora core2, CentOS3-1 and WB3 I don't know which way to go. The last 
release of CentOS (3.3) was terrible. It has ridiculous bugs in it. I 
don't feel I can trust that one. And no one has answers for them. 3.1 
was great it was right on the money. 3.3 Bad. I ve also just starting 
messing with WB 3 rs1 and see that it is very good too. I don't know 
which way I am going to go.


Dom

Thomas E. Haynes wrote:

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>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: whitebox-users-admin@beau.org 
>>[mailto:whitebox-users-admin@beau.org] On Behalf Of Craig White
>>Sent: Tuesday, November 23, 2004 8:34 PM
>>To: White Box Linux
>>Subject: Re: [WBEL-users] Using WB for Enterprise level Networks
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>>it works fine - if only John or Vicki would let us know of 
>>their intentions for the the continuity for WBEL which after 
>>2 weeks of silence is beginning to concern me.
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>Last (academic) year we were running E-Smith, and it worked very well for us
>too. For a while we were using the E-Smith machine as the squid/filter box
>as well. I got concerned about the lack up updates, and the project seemed
>to be grinding to a halt.
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>I had installed Whitebox on the developmental machine in December, and
>converted the LAMP machine over in January. At the end of this summer, the
>main student file/web server made the move. Currently the developmental
>machine is running ClarkConnect 3 beta, which is based on Fedora Core. Who
>knows what the future holds, but I figure if Sourceforge is running Fedora,
>it is worth a hard look.
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>As an academic institution, we could get a RHEL AS license for the two
>machines at $50 each per year.
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>I am playing with Debian (Sarge) on my laptop.
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>The bottom line is that I am in an environment that is very windows-centric.
>They tolerate the Linux because is works and integrates seamlessly with the
>network as far as the user is concerned. The tech staff essentially does
>nothing with the Linux machines (I am a Math teacher.), and they are getting
>money for nothing and checks for free. As soon as I have downtime or a
>security problem, I may very well lose the Linux boxes. 
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>Reliability and security are critical to me, and I rely on these machines to
>do my job.
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>FWIW...   Tom  
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