On 3/28/06, Amit Karpe amitkarpe@vsnl.net wrote:
Moreover, we were mailed regularly by people that they had trouble setting up Postgres, PHP, tomcat, Perl, JDBC, etc. during their time of critical needs. It is definately not fair to expect people to learn how to configure these things at the last moment when practicals are declared within a week.
Even if someone is capable of configuring these, it is likely that they may forget at the last moment and also likely that people wont want to spend time configuring stuff on the day previous to the exam at the cost of studying.
what are you talking about? have you ever tried installing all packages in Fedora? Works like a charm. If you have trouble use debian. apt-get is wonderful! All the technologies you have mentioned are seamlessly integrated into Fedora, Debian or any decent distro. There is no need to waste time in configuring these things. More over if the students have trouble configuring these things then the professors are supposed to help you out. If not, we are here and thousands of IRC users on #fedora, #debian, #ubuntu etc...
You shouldn't really complain about Perl, PHP, Tomcat. It's like asking to get flamed or something...
-- Regards,
Dinesh A. Joshi