Sharepoint equiv for Linux

[Leigh Honeywell]

We originally ran trac at hacklab.to, but have moved to just running
MediaWiki instead as the ticketing and VCS parts of trac weren't in use
- folks just put code on github these days :)

I'm also using Redmine a bunch, and like it so far.  It supports git.

-Leigh

On Thu, Jun 04, 2009 at 03:23:56AM -0700, Timothy Webster wrote:
> looks like trac with  ticketing, wiki and version control may be a Linux equivalent. 
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> We us trac with git for shared document editing and access control. 
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> --- On Wed, 6/3/09, Kirk Bridger <kbridger at shaw.ca> wrote:
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> From: Kirk Bridger <kbridger at shaw.ca>
> Subject: Re: Sharepoint equiv for Linux
> To: "The Canadian Ubuntu Users Community" <ubuntu-ca at lists.ubuntu.com>
> Date: Wednesday, June 3, 2009, 1:06 PM
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> My org uses Sharepoint quite extensively, and from my experience it is
> much more than a version control system.
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> It allows you (whichever user is given permission) to create websites
> essentially, and in those websites you can create document libraries. 
> These doc libraries are what I would consider fancy version control. 
> It also allows you to create task lists, calendars that connect with
> Outlook, wikis, lists that are essentially spreadsheets, subscriptions
> to any changes to any of these things, and more.
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> I'm not a fan of Sharepoint and was disappointed to see it go in, but I
> have yet to see anything in the FLOSS world that can offer the same
> level of functionality.  It might take multiple applications to do so
> and then you're left with the user unable to access a single interface
> for all that.
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> Maybe my org is using it correctly and most aren't.  My org is not a
> small org (32,000 employees) so I can't really offer much on what the
> small business uses Sharepoint for.  I just wanted to make sure it was
> clear that it can be much more than document libraries.
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> Kirk
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> Darryl Moore wrote:
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>   Damn, just when I figure I've got a through understanding of everything,
> I got to go and learn a whole other category of stuff.
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> I found a bunch of stuff on ACL's for linux here
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> http://www.suse.de/~agruen/acl/linux-acls/online/
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> and here:
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> http://beginlinux.com/server_training/server-managment-topics/1038-ubuntu-804-access-control-lists
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> They do however only seam to offer a small incremental improvement in
> control at the expense of significantly more complication. I think Linux
> groups offer sufficient control and are much easier to administer. Or am
> I missing something?
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> I found this for cost of sharepoint
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> http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepointserver/FX102176831033.aspx
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> yeah, that is pretty expensive I think.
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> I found gforge in the repos so I think I'll check it out and see how it
> compares to sharepoint.
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>               "Darryl" == Darryl Moore <darryl at moores.ca> writes:
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>         Darryl> I don't know a lot about MS networks. One of the things I
>     Darryl> was surprised to hear is that everybody has to ask the IT
>     Darryl> department to set up folders so they can share documents,
>     Darryl> and that permissions for these folders are set up on a user
>     Darryl> by user basis. There does not appear to be any concept of
>     Darryl> groups like in Linux.
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>   At the NTFS/Microsoft-Sharing level, there are groups and there are
> also extended ACLs that go way beyond what Linux has. (Although ext3 and
> ext4 has some of this, not commonly enabled)
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>   Sharepoint is not the same thing though.
>   My experience is that MS is in fact very powerful, but since the
> people running it are lowest-bidders, they don't know how to set things
> up.
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>     Darryl> The other thing she told me was that they would soon be
>     Darryl> roling out a SharePoint server which is suppose to be the
>     Darryl> holy grail and will eleviate all their issues. What I
>     Darryl> understand about Sharepoint is that it is basically a fancy
>     Darryl> version control system, and is very expensive.
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>   Yes, that's the case. Very $$$$, and doesn't really help often: it's
> too complex for most users.
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