[KLUG Members] Speaker For 2002-12-10 Needed

[Adam Williams]

>>We still have one vacant slot for 2002 - **2002-12-10**.  And of
>>course there is all of 2003...
>Do we want to see if Debian can do an XFS/LVM install? I'm kind of
>curious myself.... :-)

A demo debian install.  Sounds fine to me.

>Specifically, I'd be curious to see if Debian can satisfy YOU. You're
>the most demanding sysadmin in KLUG, 

I'm demanding?  There are more people working on Linux than on AIX,  I
just expect it to be correspondingly better in every way.  Running GNOME
on an RS/6000 P610 Dually, not thats nice!  And logical volume
management, striping and mirroring, self tuning kernel parameters -
thats all standard, you'd have to look it up to find out how to turn
them OFF.

>so I'll ask you: What packages do you currently compile from scratch?

On current Redhat I only have to build Samba, Cyrus IMAPd, and
bind-sdb.  As of RH8 SASL v2 is included, including saslauthd.  Sendmail
supports SASL and LDAP out-of-the-box, and I expect just about
everything network-servicey to be linked to SASL.  SASL provides support
for Kerberos.  Specifically Samba needs to have --with-acl-support and
--with-ldapsam.  I don't expect distro's to provide bind-sdb,  but
building that is trivial.  It would take alot to make me trust any
distro's version of Cyrus, they're are just too many ways to build that
monster.  Primarily a server friendly installer is by current beef (with
RedHat) that means LVM, MD, XFS, and the ability to setup authentication
.  RedHat provides authconfig with works most of the time.  Better
default sysctl setting would be nice as well, but those are pretty
trivial to change.