On Fri, 2004-09-24 at 07:26, Brian Fahrlander wrote: > I'm about a week away from starting a Linux conversion company where > I help users tired of Windows come to Fedora. (It's too early to use FC3 > on there yet, I think. :) > > Questions: > > 1. RH9->FC1 was a big step; I'm not surprised it was better to > install than to upgrade. For those that have tried it, does it look > like that's changed with FC3-test? (I'm thinking it's not such a big > change, but I don't know.) > I did not think RH9 to FC1 was such a big deal. It was the jump to FC2 with a new kernel, xorg, and couple of other things that generated some major gaps. Have not tried any of the FC3 stuff yet but I expect it to be much easier to jump to. > 2. I like using email certs. It just seems like the right way to do > things. I have a howto to follow, but I'm curious whether it'll be a > problem with those on dynamic IP addresses? Does anyone know for sure? > email certs in what context? You can sign you messages no problem regardless of what you IP is. But I some how suspect that is not what you are asking. > 3. With the extreme age of tkined (and nothing really to take it's > place) do people wanting to manage machines now just use MRTG and get > over it? :> > If you want to manage a number of systems MRTG is part of a solution. You probably want to look at OpenNMS or Nagios. I would recommend Big Brother but they changed their licensing a year or so ago. If you don't mind paying a license fee Big Brother is a very nice tool for managing all kinds of systems and services. Been a while since I worked with OpenNMS and Nagios so both have probably improved a lot. More complicated to setup than Big Brother but both are great network management tools. MRTG is still a useful tool in combination with these others. > Thanks! > > (For foreign or young readers, 'Johnny Appleseed' was a > semi-mythical figure known in America for planting apple trees across > the nation when it was still pretty new. I'm doing the same thing with > these beleaguered Windows users, with the hope of spreading the word in > my town.) -- Scot L. Harris webid@xxxxxxxxxx To teach is to learn twice. -- Joseph Joubert
