Re: Personal information handling in linux?
From: Kamus of Kadizhar (yan_at_NsOeSiPnAeMr.com)
Date: 03/03/04
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Date: Wed, 03 Mar 2004 06:32:40 -0500
On Tue, 02 Mar 2004 15:12:19 +0100, Tim wrote:
> Hello
> I have recently started to look into the possibility of migrating a
> small office to Linux.
> From what I have learned so far most needed programs are readilly
> avaliable but I lack something for personal information management. This
> is emails, documents, images files etc. Things that would be nice to
> have easily searchable and categorizable in different ways.
Tim:
I think you'll find that the linux paradigm is a bit different. Rather
than the all-in-one Outlook type app, run your own web server and run a
PIM for everyone. We use a modified version of rolodap; it works great
and uses LDAP backend. There are others.
For email, run IMAP and let everyone use whatever client they want. If
you want more integration, set up rolodap with LDAP and have the email
clients pull email adress information from the LDAP database.
Totally transparent, you don't have to worry about individual
workstations, and migration to new versions of the OS/app doesn't mean you
will lose all your data. And your PIM is accessible to anyone who has
access to your web server. I hide mine behind a firewall and use a VPN to
access it from just about anywhere.
Not sure about the file organizer; I use a fairly rigid hierarchy of files:
/type/client/project/[comm|dwg|design|...]
and a fairly rigid file naming convention.
The file system becomes the file organiser. No special software needed.
I use rox for the file manager.
Basically, Windows apps tend to try for the kitchen-sink approach: one app
to do everything imaginable. *nix apps are designed to do one thing, and
do it well, and the user/admin is then expected to string these utilites
together to create his/her custom solution. Either one can be really good
or bad depending on the implementation. Outlook is an example of really
bad. It's so bad I won't support anyone who uses it. Got bit by a virus?
So sorry, reinstall your OS and here's the web site for Eudora.
The *nix approach needs more knowledge and time up-front from the admin,
but once it's up it runs for years. The Windows approach works out of the
box, but is basically unstable (show me a Windows server that has run
essentially untouched for 5 years like my ancient dual PIII/333 box.)
--Kamus
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