Re: BSWare and Loki order forms...

[Adam Tauno Williams <awilliam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>	I just wanted to drop everyone a note and tell you that I had a
>great time at my first KLUG meeting.  

Great.

>There were a few differences of
>opinion but that is why linux and technology in general are so great. 

We are big on differences of opinion,  never a shortage of those.

>Everyone is allowed to have those opinions and if we did not there would be
>only one os and one browser and one of everything else.  I also got a

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>chance to meet some very intelligent and interesting people, all of whom
>I'm looking forward to talking with more!  

Wow! We fooled you!

>	As soon as I got back I loaded up the new BSWare based on the 7.1
>Redhat and all I can say is WOW!  Every device including the ATA100
>controller and sblive is up and working and the new Xconfiguration detected
>my gts pro card with no problems.  All in all this has to be the smoothest
>linux install I have ever done (and a great relief after working with the
>Redhat 7.0 release).  Keep up the great work BSWare Guys!

RH7.1 is a vast improvement over 7.0,  there isn't much disagreement about that.

>	I am starting to work on the forms for the Loki purchases and would
>like to find out what development options are available (DB, Scripting
>Language, etc..)  I am keeping this as simple as possible and Ill make sure

The KLUG box uses PostgreSQL (DB) and PHP (web scripting language).

PostgreSQL is an SQL92 compliant fully transactional client/server database engine with support for stored procedures, cluster indexes, user-defined data-types, BLOBs, etc...  In independent benchmarks it can also hold it's own against Informix, Oracle, and M$-SQL up to about 500 concurrent connections (at which point it starts to pant).  ODBC and JDBC drivers are available for almost every platform you can imagine.

PHP (Professional Home Pages,  although no one uses the meaning of the acronym anymore) is THE MOST POPULAR web scripting language on the Internet.  Works with almost ever web server (including IIS and Apache) and has an API for database and libraries that I had never heard of before reading the configure options.  PDF generation, Flash generation, Image generation, XML parsing, LDAP. arrays, sessions, objects, even OLE.  It supports PostgreSQL of course.

PHP and PostgreSQL are already on your RedHat CD"s as RPMS, compiled and ready to go with the included version of apache.

>that it's open enough to be viewed by all browsers (not just IE 5.0+ (ok ok
>so I had to throw that in...)  but seriously if there are any particular

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