[Dspace-general] Dspace-general Digest, Vol 51, Issue 1

Tue Oct 2 12:58:09 EDT 2007

Related to the linux distro decision... is there any statistics of the
differente OS where DSpace is installed on around the world? Something like
"40% installations run over XYZ platform, 20% run over ABC, etc, etc".

Regards.

Leandro

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> Date: Mon, 1 Oct 2007 13:44:56 -0500
> From: "Greg Bush" <gbush at kfa-inc.com>
> Subject: [Dspace-general] What Distribution of Linus Works Best?
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> Greetings,
>
> I am new to DSPACE and Linux and all of the other application components
> required to make DSPACE work.  I have to setup the system very
> quickly.  Is
> there a distribution of Linux that is known to work the best?  Is there
> one
> that is the easiest to configure?  Please provide any tips that you can.
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> Thank you for your valuable time.
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> Greg Bush
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> Date: Mon, 1 Oct 2007 21:36:01 +0200
> From: Christian Voelker <C.Voelker at gmx.net>
> Subject: Re: [Dspace-general] What Distribution of Linus Works Best?
> To: Greg Bush <gbush at kfa-inc.com>
> Cc: dspace-general at mit.edu
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> Am 01.10.2007 um 20:44 schrieb Greg Bush:
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> > Greetings,
> >
> > I am new to DSPACE and Linux and all of the other application
> > components required to make DSPACE work.  I have to setup the
> > system very quickly.
> Congratulations.
> > Is there a distribution of Linux that is known to work the best?
> > Is there one that is the easiest to configure?  Please provide any
> > tips that you can.
> First suggestion: Stick with what you have right now
> as long as it works for you. You will gather experience
> with that and you will know precisely which amount of
> experience and knowledge you throw away of something
> else in case you decide to do so.
>
> In general every distro has its rough sides and its
> sweet spots. The most important decision you take is
> probably the package manager the distro is using.
> There are two major directions to go, one of them
> the debian way, the other redhat. I am in the former
> camp and there Debian itself or Ubuntu are the most
> common with Ubuntu definetly being more friendly,
> but you have to read debian docs always as well if
> you decide to use Ubuntu and run into trouble.
>
> If you decide for the redhat side, then the original
> is one obvious choice or the completely free version
> Fedora. Then there is CentOS which is kind of the
> Enterprise flavor of Fedora and very popular recently.
> In Germany there is a historic prevalence for the
> Novell SuSE or OpenSuSE, where SuSE is equivalent to
> RedHat Enterprise and OpenSuSE to Fedora. But why
> would you choose that? Ask your friend and pick
> either Fedora/CentOS or Debian/Ubuntu.
>
> A third track are sourcecode based Distros such as
> Slackware or the more recent and friendly Gentoo,
> but I bet you dont want to start with that.
>
> Then last option is to choose the BSD track. It
> is an entirely separate world for the base distro
> and kernel but above, everything is rather similar.
> Some reasons for BSD are security and clean design,
> not necessarily fastpaced development. If security
> is your first concern than you have no alternative
> to OpenBSD and the small and vivid community around
> the knowledgeable but excentric guru Theo de Raadt.
>
> If you run PC hardware, then the most common and
> friendly distro is FreeBSD, NetBSD is more of a
> technology demo for portability of code and no
> pratical alternative. FreeBSD has the ports tree
> as a package systems which is source based (see
> Gentoo) and works brilliantly. I like FreeBSD
> best besides Debian but have not run DSpace on
> that platform.
>
> Bye, Christian
>
>
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> Message: 3
> Date: Tue, 02 Oct 2007 13:55:58 +0200
> From: Gay <gay at cines.fr>
> Subject: [Dspace-general] redefine an url
> To: dspace-general at mit.edu
> Message-ID: <5.0.2.1.2.20071002135414.02e46940 at pop2.cines.fr>
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> Hi
> i have an application using Dspace and tomcat.5  my URL is
> http://myserver.fr/dspace
> how can i do to access with the URL http://myserver.fr  only
> myserver.fr/dspace  is configured on dspace.cfg
> thanks
> mireille
>
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