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 -- Debian Enterprise: A Custom Debian Distribution: http://debian-enterprise.org/ * Homepage: http://homepages.ihug.com.au/~zenaan/ * PGP Key: http://homepages.ihug.com.au/~zenaan/zen.asc * Please respect the confidentiality of this email as sensibly warranted.
