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["John Howe" <warlock@arashi.com>]

> Great! I hope we will be able to pull this off and get the money sooner
> than RSN.
>
> Four questions:
>
> 1) I assume not having Zope root access on an ibiblio Zope server will not
> hamper progress.
>     If you need this (root) to create Zope products could you do that work
> on John Howe's
>     server on an as needed basis?

A Product can be created from any development system and installed to the
Zope instance. Depending on how Zope is configured, users can have their
own unique Product instance directories ( it appears Zope 2.7.2 still
requires a hard reboot at times to install the new product in my
experience ).

> 2) Rich mentioned before that permaculture.info could become a node in a
> distributed
>     database network/extranet wherein data updates on one server would
> instantly be
>     reflected by all participating nodes. I would assume that all nodes
> would use
>     permaculture.info's database software and they would be required to
> have access to a Zope server to
>     be able to participate. As opposed to using standard
> Linux/Apache/MySQL/PHP will nodes having to
>     meet this requirement limit the number of organizations/individuals
> who will be able to be part of
>     our project, in this case, The Open Permaculture Project (that's a
> great name for this, open=accessable=visible)?

Or do the database merge via Soap a/o XML/RPC calls? Depends on how the
API is designed for this. Will there be a moderating system for foreign
node DB contributions?

> 3) With Zope on ibiblio would I be able to run Plone in my ibiblio
> website? Could I run a copy of your Perl weblog?

Plone is an add-on product to the Zope instance. There shouldn't be any
issue applying it to your Zope instance ( depends on parent configuration
).

> 4) When I bring my new computer home from the store I will have an extra
> Intel platform,  a P4. I am contemplating installing Linux
>     on it as a dual boot machine networked via a network switch with my
> new one. Could you recommend a flavor of Linux or maybe FreeBSD?
>     You're talking rank novice user here. I need to be able to massage my
> collection of data files with Linux and have been looking forward
>     to doing this for years. I don't need apps, just utilities and Linux
> commands.

I personally prefer Debian myself. However, the installer for the current
stable distribution isn't very novice friendly. The new installer for
Debian testing distribution is a bit more friendlier.
http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/

Red Hat has a very user friendly install, however, I do not find Red Hat
that great of a linux platform in production environments ( unless you buy
into the $$ Enterprise series ). I don't have a high opinion of Fedora,
though I am biased from a lot of production work.

I have heard good things about Mandrake. Some people prefer SUSE as well.

All linux *.iso images are available @ http://linuxiso.org/. ( Assumes you
have a cd burner capable of writing *.iso images to CD ).

If you want to test out Linux on top of an existing Windows install in a
non-destructive, test run, I would recommend Knoppix @
http://www.knoppix.org/. You will need a CD burner to make a bootable CD
out of the *.iso image.

I use BSD via Mac OS X, you might find that some linux code does not
compile cleanly under BSD.

If you convert over to a multi-boot system and use GRUB as your boot
loader, you can multiboot into Windows, Linux, and FreeBSD. Just get a
real large hardrive >;}~
http://geodsoft.com/howto/dualboot/grub.htm

> Thanks for any thoughts on this.
>
> Roll on.
>
> LL
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