Hi, > I've just read this article about UCS@school > > http://www.pro-linux.de/news/1/23680/ucsschool-41-r2-freigegeben.html > > Is there any relation to Debian Edu work and if not why not or should we > cooperate to some extend? We are running UCS at work and the answer is: Yes, UCS is in some way related to Debian Edu, or, better put, to GoSA. But only because both partially do the same thing. No, UCS is not related to Debian (Edu) from a technical point of view. UCS is based on an old Ubuntu version with partially quite crippled proprietary packages. I have worked with UCS for some years and also with GoSA², and have found only few things UCS can do better than GoSA. One of these things are LDAP triggers - UCS can trigger arbitrary scripts on defined LDAP changes, coming in handy at times when data from LDAP needs to be synchronised in some way, e.g. running ldap2bind. But these things that UCS can do better are non-free, proprietary additions which we should probably re-implement. I have already started work on the trigger thing some time ago (it is not as simple as it sounds). One interesting thing would be to enable Debian Edu clients to run in a UCS environment. Personally, I do not think supporting a proprietary server product is worth the effort (do we support Debian Edu clients running in a Windows server environment?), but that would be one point where I see possibilities for cooperation. Personally, I think we should rather strive to make GoSA keep up with UCS. -nik -- PGP-Fingerprint: 3C9D 54A4 7575 C026 FB17 FD26 B79A 3C16 A0C4 F296 Dominik George · Mobil: +49-1520-1981389 Teckids e.V. · FrOSCon e.V. · OpenRheinRuhr e.V. Fellowship of the FSFE · Piratenpartei Deutschland Opencaching Deutschland e.V. · Debian Contributor LPIC-3 Linux Enterprise Professional (Security)
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