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Agenda:
This meeting was best characterized by "lots of discussion" ;-)
CSuite 1.0-beta-1.0 is ready to roll!
See the Announcement on the CSuite-Dev
mailing list. Those wishing to participate in this very
short beta testing round should send a note containing only
"Subscribe CSuite-Dev" to majordomo@chebucto.ns.ca for
on-going discussion.
CSuite 1.0-beta-1.0 Status
Clean install
Chebucto Suite installs, using scripts and its own version of lynx,
driving a forms-based interface, cleanly on Debian Linux 1.2 (Kernel
2.0.29) with these
packages installed.
Tested
CSuite has now undergone a major testing effort, with both automated and
manual evaluation. We have a shrinking list of those few links and
features that have not undergone automated testing :( but these should
mainly be tested by the end of the beta testing cycle.
Exceptions may be the year-end testing, and some functions which are
triggered by exception conditions, but which have been developed and
demonstrated on our sponsor's host Chebucto Community Network.
New license
There will be a new license agreement which clarifies and expands upon
the terms of the previous version.====link====
Acknowledgements
We are requiring certain placement of links on a couple of areas. First,
a CSuite acknowledgement will appear first on the site's acknowledgements
page, or second if an acknowledgement to the site's own volunteers
appears first.
New Features
Many new features will abound.
- Chief among these will be the remote links on the who, i(Information
Provider index), search, people, and recent functions, implemented by a
script which retrieves periodic updates of a database file from the
Chebucto server. Each cooperating site will be able to customize their
local feature locations, and submit their own links to the database.
- New versions of Lynx and Pine will be included.
- Most however, have to do with the operation of the system, and are
not so obvious to the user.
Beta changes
Change information on CSuite during the beta cycle will be available
through http://csuite.chebucto.ns.ca/CSuite/changes/
Disk Partitioning
Here is a proposed disk partitioning scheme (revised from last week.)
Based on our experience on CCN, this is what we came up with, for a small
Community Net with say 500 to 1000 members. To support additional users,
proportionally more disk space would be needed. It is assumed that access
to a separately hosted news server is available.
estimate based on n = number of sessions, w = size of Xwindows distribution,
solve for x, which is a function of number of users to be supported; for
a 2 GB drive, x works out to about 466 MB.
All sizes in MBytes unless specified.
| partition | size | notes | quotas |
2GB example |
| swap | mem + 2n | maximum single swap
partition
average user session 2-3 MB |
| 128 |
| /var/log | 50 + x/4 | log area - grows; includes
csuite/log
separate so it doesn't overrun the
system | | 164 |
| /, /usr, csuite, info may be combined to taste |
| / | 50 + x/4 | includes /tmp | | 164 |
| /usr | 100 + w | no room for Xwindows in
example | | 100 |
| csuite | 200 | csuite files, help,
services | | 200 |
| info | 50 + x | mainly IP areas, maybe shared with help
and services | Optional |
516 |
| |
| home | 50 + x | users' directories |
Yes | 516 |
| mail | 50 + x/2 | users' mail |
Yes | 284 |
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Owen Sound's CyberSound Community
Net temporary address
will be our first formal 1.0-beta-1.0 test site. The partitions will
be rebuilt according to the above scheme, and Linux and CSuite installed
March 6.
Drivers for the multiport board need to be updated. Initial testing by
the Owen Sound team will commence thereafter, and then the system will be
shipped out.
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Ed Dyer
aa146@chebucto.ns.ca
Workshop Coordinator
David J
Murdoch
djm@chebucto.ns.ca