@Obsolesce said in City of Munich Moving to Closed Source Software: It looks like the whole issue was due to their use of some weird distro years ago. That article technically doesn't say why they need Windows now, so for all I know they have some new weird requirements I don't know about, but assuming they don't, I think the decision to go to Windows is a horrible idea. They'd be much better off going to Ubuntu instead. Yes I upvoted a post about how Ubuntu would be better than an alternative. Please no heart attacks people.

@scottalanmiller That's one hell of a run on sentence! Do you actually speak without pausing or breathing?

Here's a decent video on building a small Java class to interface with it: https://youtu.be/Od1FgLlK-mA

And arguing about the word "critical". Specifically "Critical" means everything outside "critical" is OK from the sources. So it's like "critical" is even more a niche than "any" production usage. That's why I think this wording is not fit: every production load (ie in a company) makes sense. Hobbyist is clearly not related to "production", that's why "critical" word isn't needed here Critical in the business sense, means I need support, supporting it yourself is not an option. FFS

Dragging and dropping todos between notebooks - I really like that

Have never looked at that.

@dbeato said in Zimbra 8.8.12 Released: @scottalanmiller said in Zimbra 8.8.12 Released: Wow, They release Open Drive and it only works up to NextCloud 13? NextCloud 16 is in RC today. What the heck? Yeah, that is weird. Behind the times. My level of impressed keeps slipping.

@scottalanmiller said in REDIS changes its open-source license again: Looks like it is only some modules... https://redis.io/modules This is all the previous change was also.

@StorageNinja said in MongoDB Major Change to Licensing: @scottalanmiller said in MongoDB Major Change to Licensing: if you are a SaaS vendor looking at building software that uses MongoDB somewhere, you'd better get a lawyer looking over this license and how it applies to you. This is becoming a bigger issue as the biggest SaaS vendors hide behind this clause more and more with incredibly proprietary forks. They offer very little to no actual core development or contribution and it goes against the previous method of GPL code getting funding. It annoys me, as the legal headaches of contributing internal only use code back will block some companies from using OSS, but I see it both ways. The startups who are doing a lot of the core housekeeping of NOSQL platforms are learning they can't find a business model. This is getting messier and messier. Partially because there are just too any vendors involved. What's amazing, though, is that a move like this took a customer who was very into MongoDB and using it in projects and was literally working with MongoDB's own hosted product and now looking to avoid it like the plague. So at least in this one case, they are likely losing hosted product from this. And gaining nothing. I imagine a lot of customers going through this same process.

@dustinb3403 said in ResourceSpace - DAM: Does anyone here use ResourceSpace Just curious, nothing else. Never heard of it, But was definitely worth looking into!

@black3dynamite said in Bern Moves Schools to NextCloud: Isn't Canvas based on Moodle? That sounds right.

@matteo-nunziati said in Microsoft Open Sources Windows Subsystem for Linux WSL: @scottalanmiller said in Microsoft Open Sources Windows Subsystem for Linux WSL: @matteo-nunziati said in Microsoft Open Sources Windows Subsystem for Linux WSL: @scottalanmiller said in Microsoft Open Sources Windows Subsystem for Linux WSL: @matteo-nunziati said in Microsoft Open Sources Windows Subsystem for Linux WSL: @scottalanmiller not so limited. I do both linux and win devel. Win in vm is a pita so you run win bare metal and use linux in vm. Then you grown bored of setting up samba for sharing between vm and host, fire the vm on 1 screen and have another os in the other screen and so on. Now I just fire wsl from win menu and I go. It is simply more seamless to me. When you say you develop on both, you develop the same things on both, or different things on both? I share between systems via GIT. No I've customers asking for linux stuff and other customers asking for win stuff. What causes the need for the Samba shares between them, then? Seems like you'd just keep them disconnected. While all end in a git service (bitbucket) having code sparse in 2 machines and duplicated tools is not something I like. So I prefer to keep eveything in 1 place use 1 editor and share sources/compiled code to run it. With wsl this is smooth and fast. Not having to devel for win would be a big win. That's what I do, I just don't do Windows

Free, but not sure about open source... LibreOffice Draw works well. Inkscape is worth checking out; typically a vector graphics tool, but also has some PDF editing capabilities. I've used Foxit PhantomPDF across a few clients, and have had some issues with the driver just randomly experiencing issues when trying to print to PDF or to a printer. So, just a heads up. But their price is very attractive. As @JaredBusch also pointed out, PDf Element is a good alternative at a slightly lower cost than Foxit PhantomPDF (roughly $30).

@olivier Definitely worth repeating this old post. Oracle has given back so much more than Amazon.

@olivier said in Zimbra 8.8 Has Released: Again, thanks for posting this, it helps me to remember I need to update my Zimbra from time to time (oh and thanks for the direct link too) Good!

@pravin said in Ma be repeated, I'm looking for Cost effective and open source solution with overall linux environment!!!: @scottalanmiller Thanks for your support, and I saw video and I think it's immeasurable topic for me More videos coming from MangoCon, as well.

@mike-davis said in Open Source Property Management: @dashrender Off the top of my head, it's a sheet of expenses, mileage, taxes, and income. aww, ok so just one excel file with 4 sheets.. cool.

@scottalanmiller said in Odoo vs ERPNext and Which linux more suitable (Ubuntu/CentOS) ?: Fedora is better for active IT departments that maintain their systems. CentOS is better for companies that deploy and never maintain their systems and just hope for the best I just wonder your statement here on CentOS, while I have seen you always praise CentOS than Ubuntu. Is that praise just about CentOS vs Ubuntu ? So your whole interest on Fedora is because it have Latest things and faster development ?

@stacksofplates said in Why Free Open Source Software Is Cheaper Than You Think: @dashrender said in Why Free Open Source Software Is Cheaper Than You Think: Well I have downloaded Inkscape but haven't had occasion to use it much. If you have other graphics programs to recommend I'm all ears. Personally I really like the Corel products, they seem much more straight forward to use than PS. So I'm definitely not stuck on the PS side of things. I'm definitely a causal user I prefer Inkscape if I can do it. Vector is so much easier to work with than raster. Inkscape is awesome. Loads of professional work is done in that.

Hope they will keep the pace

Loving the Marvin Gaye reference in the title.

@scottalanmiller said in non VPN Cloud based storage: @Dashrender said in non VPN Cloud based storage: @scottalanmiller said in non VPN Cloud based storage: @Dashrender said in non VPN Cloud based storage: @scottalanmiller said in non VPN Cloud based storage: @Dashrender said in non VPN Cloud based storage: Cost is an issue? Assuming you got hosted SharePoint only I think it's $4/u/m... Tiny capacity, though. 1 TB per user? That's ODfB. The Sharepoint storage proper is like 100MB. OMG, that's near useless! It's only for documents. Goes a long way when used as intended. Used as intended? That's a joke, right? Storing large PDFs should be a part of the intention. DWG files can be huge.

@DustinB3403 looks interesting, but not something I have had to look into before.

@scottalanmiller Done

@Dashrender said in Cameyo - Application Virtualization: @RojoLoco said in Cameyo - Application Virtualization: Didn't @art_of_shred recently get a Cameyo? I don't know about recently Maybe at MangoCon it can make a Cameyo appearance!

@coliver said in Azure AD Open Source Alternative: @StrongBad said in Azure AD Open Source Alternative: Samba 4 does what AD does, for free. But I'm not aware of anything that does what Azure AD does using open source software that you can host yourself. Does anyone know if something exists? I guess what are you looking for? Azure AD is basically hosted AD with some limitations as to client management. It's a totally different technology. Azure AD is a competitor with hosted AD. It's not AD in any way. Very different technologies. One is a LAN design and one is LANless as well.