Finding out the potential similarities with the SME server (from mittel) is a good research project that someone definately needs to have a look at in order to best focus our energy and development in the right direction. We need to find out what kind of overlap there might be, and to see if we would be reduplicating anything unnecessarily. Does anyone have a good overview of their feature set? I've crawled through their web pages a number of times and haven't seen anything, except nice screenshots of their management interface. As I said previously, I think a debian NP server would facilitate the maintenance of a dynamic website, have internal knowledge management and collaborative tools, a full featured email server with a web-based LDAP user management front-end for everything from account creation, password changing, spam settings, email forwards, etc. As well as an out-of-the-box mailing list server, web cache, opengroupware, DNS cache, firewalling, statistical monitoring/alerts and easy distributed network backup system... this can be done in a modularized way, so that on installation particular modules could be selected depending on needs. I have been having trouble finding what SME has, their goals, and what their connection is with the commercial side, as well as the Mitre connection. Can someone help us better understand this? Micah On Fri, 16 Apr 2004, John Billings wrote: > Howdy, > > I am wondering how a proposed Debian NP server, would compare to the > SME server (contribs.org). I also like the idea of having a Debian NP > server distro, since it's almost impossible for me to get agencies to > adopt Linux on the desktop, the server is a different story. It's not > the install process I am worried about so much, but the admin features > that really make implementing a Linux server possible. The biggest goal > for me would be having an easy to use admin system that staff at > non-profits could use to maintain and update the server. > > > John > > On Fri, Apr 16, 2004 at 02:12:58PM -0500, Micah Anderson wrote: > > In the initial assessment phase we did spec out on the wiki the > > different things a server could offer > > (http://wiki.debian.net/index.cgi?DebianNPServer) additionally, at our > > irc meeting we talked about if we should work on a desktop version or > > a server version and ended up deciding that some people wanted to > > focus on one, and some on the other, so we decided to split off to > > work on a server version and some went to work on a desktop version. > <snip> > > -- > #/#/#/#/#/#/#/#/#/#/#/#/#/#/#/#/#/#/#/#/#/#/#/#/#/#/#/#/#/#/#/# > John Billings - Free Software/Open Source Advocate > _______________________________________________________________ > Listen, kid, we're all in it together. -- Harry Tuttle > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-nonprofit-REQUEST@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster@lists.debian.org >
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