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["Lawrence F. London, Jr." <lfl@intrex.net>]

John Howe wrote:

> 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 ).

I mentioned this because of earlier comments from John S that root access 
might
be required to create Zope products, something he implied you would be doing 
a lot of.

> > 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?

What do you mean by moderating system? Seems all that would be necessary is a 
translator,
as data is always just data which those remote nodes would be inputting. 
Their bioregion would
have its own peer review process to screen and evaluate data.

> > 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
> ).

So with my Linux login shell account I would or would not have access to my 
Zope instance?
Would I install Plone there or have to login to the Zope server to do it then 
call it from my
html page?

> > 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

Many of the Linux techies I know prefer Debian.

> 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.

What is Fedora? I will need a real easy install so I may go for Linux though 
I hear Mandrake
is easy. I just need access to a linux command line to manage my data 
filesystem (for now at least).

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

I hear SUSE is good also.

> 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 can make this type of CD.

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

I hear that BSD is light years ahead of any Linux version; FreeBSD is not 
quite
as finished but nearly as good.

> 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

I have multiple drives for this machine, 200 and 250 gigs. Currently the Win 
2000 boot drive is a 36 gig SCSI
with a companion SCSI 36 gig Drive D. With Win 2K on Drive C could I wipe 
Drive D and install Red Hat there with GRUB as boot manager
- all this without deinstalling Win 2K and formatting Drive C?

Man, this is truly a value-added mailing list, HG, PC and software advice, 
virtually one stop shopping.

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