[custom] Debian Enterprise - packages
As per the recommendations from Bruce Perens' User Linux paper
http://userlinux.com/white_paper.html, this thread is to discuss the
applications within the bounded set of Debian Enterprise/ User Linux.
The bounded set will depend on the flavour. So first comes proposed
flavours (and sub-flavours/ tasks/ yadda) - see previous email/ thread.
Here are some initial (obviously debatable and incomplete) selections to
start out the bounded-apps conversation:
* Web Browser
- Mozilla-Firebird
I've used Mozilla, Galeon in its day, more recently Epiphany, and the
last few months Moz-Firebird. It is simply the simplest (and in my
opinion best) of the crop.
* Web Server - Apache 2.0 (let's get with the times)
* Open SSH Implementation - OpenSSH (much more active that gnu version)
* Office Suite - OpenOffice (there's no other near as feature complete)
* Scripting Language - Python (no one will debate this one :)
- I have never used, only read (plenty) about Python, and I'm not
personally too sure about this white space thing, but from what I hear
about it (quite consistently) eventually feeling more "natural" than
anything else, I am inclined to believe this really is the case. My
experience with Java (after C/C++) was sort of like that, and if Python
is more so, then I think it could be closest to the next VB replacement.
Some client of some service provider may however commission completion
of VB clone, or VB# or whatever.
- MONO (go-mono.org/net/com?) is from the sound of it may be a year
away, but perhaps that's a reasonable time frame, if we were to go with
.NET/MONO for scripting.
- Java - I think this is the only other reasonable alternative, and
should perhaps be the first choice (due to being as entrenched as it is
in middleware/ corporate) - there are a few Free Software
implementations, including one fully integrated with GCC toolchain
(which I think is just too sweet) - namely gcj.
* Mail Server - Postfix (scales more than exim, not as restrictive to
admiinister as qmail).
* Package format (had you going there - obviously DEBs!)
Please add to the list as per your personal exprience dictates.
Thanks
Zenaan
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