Topic: Way to setup Gnome on SME?

[linuxhelp]

is there a way to setup gnome?
and Xserver-xorg?

sorry iam newbie at sme

[byte]

Moving this topic to the SME 7.x contribs forum, it is more appropriate there. Thanks!

[arne]

No, this is not possible in the real and practical world, to intall Gnome on top of the SME server, without messing things so much up, as for the practical situation it is actually destroyed.

If I had one PC and I for some reason would like to have the functionality of Gnome and the SME server on one PC, I think I would have done it like this:

1. Install latest revision of Centos with Gnome at the PC.

2. Install free Vmware virtualization server on that Centos installation.

3. Install SME 7.3 as a virtual server running on Centos/Vmware.

I am running this setup myself except that the Centos host system is without Gnome. (As I liked to have the host system as stripped down and simple as possible) I think it should work with Gnome as well, and this could also leave the option of starting up, or shutting down Gnome on the host system as required. (I guess the virtualization server will perform bether with Gnome closed down.)

My experience with running the SME server as a virtual installation is very positive. It has been running rock stable for six months now, and backups can be done very easy by just copying the whole virtual image.

[Stefano]

is there a way to setup gnome?
and Xserver-xorg?

sorry iam newbie at sme

simply a question: WHY?

Ciao
Stefano

[linuxhelp]

Why,

not everybody has two PCs..to use..

i try VMware..

[arne]

Just to have mentioned that as well ..

Vmware server can run under Linux, and it can run under Windows as well. (As an excample Windows XP or Windows 2003 server.)

To get started learning to use it, it will be much simpler and easier to install it on Windows XP than on Linux/Centos.

Vmware (and sme server) on Windows XP will work, but will possibly not perform as well as when running at Linux/Centos.

So the most easy way to get started learning to use Vmware, and learning to use SME server will be to have Windows XP installed on the single PC, and then install Vmware on the Windows XP installation and then a virtual installation of SME server 7.3 on Vmware.

I have been using such an arrangement on one of my laptops for a while, so I know it will be working. The only drawback is that the Vmware will slow down the Windows XP system a bit. When I use Vmware server on Windows XP I have 2 Gig of ram on the Laptop. I guess it can run with Vmware/SME server also with 1 GiG ram, but not less than that. (In general, virtualization will require more ram.)

To install Vmware on Linux is slightly more difficult, but I have a few notes on that subject if it should be required.

Windows XP with Vmware and SME server is also an option to get started, if there is only one PC. (RAM should be 2 GIG.)

In this way it is also possible to install different Linux servers on the same Windows machine, like SME, Centos, Ubuntu etc.

Later on, when there is two PC's, it is possible to run one host system with Linux and one with Windows, and to move/copy the virtual installations between the two host systems for modifications, testing out, etc. (So if there is something stange with my virtual SME server running on Centos 64/Vmware, I can just copy it over to Windows XP/Vmware to do some more safe testing.)

[linuxhelp]

thank you arne

i hope to get it to run, its much tricky like debian/ubuntu but it has
out of the box a good webmail-server for small companys/offices.

my old system was a ubuntu server with apache2+php5+mysql+cups+samba
and a interface to connect my webcams for service

in case that iam not a specialist for mysql i missed the good emailserver like sme..