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Re: [custom] Debian Enterprise - flavors



Zenaan Harkness, on 2003-12-03, 14:58, you wrote:
> To give limits to Debian Enterprise/ User Linux we need to define some
> areas of focus.
> 
> Flavours (and sub-flavours/ tasks/ yadda) is as good a place to start as
> any. So here are some proposed flavours:
> 
>  - Enterprise (base packages and more "neutral" config)
>  - Enterprise Desktop - with sub-flavours of:
>     - Secretary Desktop
>     - Presentation Client (OO Presenter, multimedia, flash)
>     - Developer Desktop (all build-depends of all flavours, as a start)
> 
>  - Enterprise Fileserver
>  - Enterprise Webserver
>  - Enterprise Auth Server
>  - Enterprise Departmental Server (combines File, Web + Auth)
> 
>  - Enterprise Firewall
>  - Enterprise SCM Server
>  - Enterprise Router
> 
>  - Enterprise Thin Client

All these are not that important for real enterprises (talking about
large ones).  What they need, is _one_ enterprise server.  That is an
operating system that has features like distributed file-systems,
high-availability facilities, system health monitoring and CPU-hotplugging ;-)
When such a system is available, then having a "fileserver flavor" is
just a matter of typing "apt-get install samba".  So what I (and my
clients) need is an operating system for the real big boxen.  This is of
course Debian but I expect of Debian Enterprise to bring me an install
CD that will let me setup such a system just like I would setup my
small desktop computer with a standard woody CD.

Joerg

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Joerg "joergland" Wendland
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