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    Univention Linux (Debian KDE)

    Discussion in 'Linux Compatibility and Software' started by theZoid, Feb 3, 2011.

  1. theZoid

    theZoid Notebook Savant

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    I'm posting purely out of curiosity. Has anyone heard of Univention Linux? It's focused on business, but they have a free for personal use edition in 32 or 64 bit and use KDE 4. Not sure about the kernel, and which version of Debian either.

    Just curious. :cool: :p :D

    Univention GmbH:Linux for your business
     
    theZoid, Feb 3, 2011
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  2. Thaenatos

    Thaenatos Zero Cool

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    Never heard of it but I dont like the idea of "demos" and limited use binaries while the full version costs money. Maybe Im reading the site wrong, but it just doesnt feel like an open source site...
     
    Thaenatos, Feb 8, 2011
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  3. Jan Chr. Ebersbach

    Jan Chr. Ebersbach Newbie

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    Hi,

    I heard of Univention, I'm working for it :) Univention Linux (alias UCS) is our distribution focused on enterprises with a size of 50 to 5000 users. It integrates Samba, OpenLDAP, Heimdal Kerberos and other software and makes it highly scalable and maintainable.

    UCS builds on the stable distribution of Debian GNU/Linux. Currently this is Lenny. We are planning the update UCS to Squeeze in summer 2011. UCS ships with two kernels, 2.6.18 and 2.6.32. Depending on your hardware and the software you want to use, e.g. Xen, KVM .., it's better to use the one or the other.

    Greetings,

    Jan Christoph

     
    Jan Chr. Ebersbach, Feb 8, 2011
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  4. Thomas

    Thomas McLovin

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    Libre != Gratis
     
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  7. naticus

    naticus Notebook Deity

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    Right. So from my understanding of the injunction, or the article rather, is from my perspective Uninvention is completely correct. Open source is, well open source. Because one entity chooses to step away from that, all the while offering free enterprise level support while also offering commercial support, is a good thing.

    Unless I misunderstood that article, then well maybe I am missing something? :confused:
     
    naticus, Feb 9, 2011
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    @naticus yeah it's really old news, sorry... I just posted that to give some background. It was interesting at the time. :p
     
    ALLurGroceries, Feb 9, 2011
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  9. naticus

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    Haha. Actually I was rather confused by the article. English is not my first language, although I went to school in the states. But it seems the article may have been translated by google or something.

    Good read nonetheless :) .
     
    naticus, Feb 9, 2011
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