The Feodra team has posted a set of 28 features for the upcoming Fedora 7 release, of which the biggest is this: "Starting with Fedora 7, there is no more Core, and no more Extras; there is only Fedora. One single repository, built in the community on open source tools, assembled into whatever spins the Fedora community desires."
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Member since:2005-07-29
Fedora DS does look pretty good. I think they got rid of that horrible ldbm backend. But watch out for MM replication. MM is not generally needed (directories are used for heavy-read scenarios, RDBMS for read/write scenarios), and MM can easily break ACID (you change an attribute of one object at one master, I delete the object at another master - what happens?).
I'd actually just prefer some really good GUI admin tools for OpenLDAP, to farm out tasks to junior LDAP admins.
Member since:2005-07-06
I think they got rid of that horrible ldbm backend.
I wasn't aware that there was any ldbm back end. RHDS is the former Netscape Directory Server remember, and is not related to OpenLDAP in any way.
I'd actually just prefer some really good GUI admin tools for OpenLDAP, to farm out tasks to junior LDAP admins.
So would a lot of people, but unfortunately Red Hat don't have, and aren't using, the development tools needed to produce those quality administration tools. Unfortunately, if you want any decent GUI tools then you're just going to have to use RHDS, which comes with the Java GUI tools it's always had.
It really is imperative though that Linux as a whole gets a good LDAP directory server back end in order to make available the things that are so easy in the Windows world.
Member since:2005-07-06
I'd actually just prefer some really good GUI admin tools for OpenLDAP, to farm out tasks to junior LDAP admins.
You could try:
http://phpldapadmin.sourceforge.net/download.php
or
http://jxplorer.org/
I don't know if any of them will ship with Fedora 7 though.
Member since:
2005-07-06
Nice to see that they plan to include Fedora DS.
OpenLDAP is good but this one is better, e.g.
having multi master replication and a nice GUI.
This will make it much easier to handle a lot of boxes and users, even though I suspect that most of the target audience for this type of software will prefer RHEL over Fedora, but it could prove useful e.g in schools or other organizations on low budgets.
Fedora DS have can be downloaded for FC6 and earlier, but so far it haven't worked well in combination with SELinux, one could only hope this will be fixed when it becomes part of the Fedora Linux distro.