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Subject:    Re: [kde-promo] The KDE 4 Migration Story: authoring a presentable
From:       Ben Cooksley <bcooksley () kde ! org>
Date:       2010-06-14 20:25:15
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On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 5:02 AM, Justin Kirby <justin@neomantra.org> wrote:
> 
> 
> On Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 3:41 PM, Aaron J. Seigo <aseigo@kde.org> wrote:
> > 
> > On June 2, 2010, Aaron J. Seigo wrote:
> > > so .. i'd like to suggest an irc meeting this friday or saturday (3rd or
> > > 4th) @ 15:00 UTC (flexible). can those who are interested reply with
> > > which
> > 
> > ok, so having received a number of replies from various people (thanks
> > everyone! :) the plan is:
> > 
> > WHERE: #kde-promo on irc.feenode.net
> > 
> > WHEN: 15:00 UTC on Saturday the 5th
> > 
> > WHAT: kicking ass, taking names and starting work on the "Why You And Your
> > Loved Ones Should Migrate To KDE 4 With Love, Confidence and Joy" document
> > (just a working title, may need some revision ;)
> > 
> 
> Hi all, apologies that I don't have time to really get too involved in all
> of this white paper writing but I was at SELF this weekend and got some
> feedback from our user community that I wanted to share.  I had a couple
> sysadmins come up to me at our booth and point out that currently they allow
> KDE at their university (their employees can run whatever they want in most
> cases) but they are contemplating banning it the near future.  The reason is
> that I guess KDE stores a MySQL database in your /home/ directory for every
> user.  They store everyone's /home/ directories on network servers rather
> than locally (which is really common in large organizations) and apparently
> all the back and forth traffic occurring from the users' computers to this
> database stored in their network accessible home directory is causing major
> performance problems.

This is likely caused by Akonadi... they should be configuring it to
use a server side MySQL instance in this case.

> 
> Anyways I imagine this is something KDE devs are aware of but I just wanted
> to be sure you folks writing this white paper were aware of as it sounded to
> me like it could be a major roadblock and would fit into the context of what
> you're planning on discussing.  If it's possible to somehow remedy this
> situation I think it would increase the likelihood of KDE's success in such
> environments.
> 
> -Justin
> 
> 
> > 
> > see you there!
> > 
> > --
> > Aaron J. Seigo
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