[CentOS] INN removed from CentOS 6
Robert Heller
heller at deepsoft.com
Wed Apr 27 14:59:24 UTC 2011
At Wed, 27 Apr 2011 09:50:07 -0500 CentOS mailing list <centos at centos.org> wrote:
>
> On 4/27/2011 9:24 AM, Robert Heller wrote:
> > At Wed, 27 Apr 2011 09:56:44 -0400 CentOS mailing list<centos at centos.org> wrote:
> >
> >>
> >> I use inn to make internal company announcements and
> >> discussions available to remote offices.
> >> I note inn is removed form RHEL 6. What replaces inn?
> >>
> >> http://docs.redhat.com/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/6/html/Technical_Notes/apc.html
> >>
> >> Will inn be available from elsewhere? Will I have to compile
> >> it?
> >>
> >> Should I modify my scripts to create and install html files
> >> for a web server? That would make article deletion, archiving,
> >> and maintenance more difficult than it is with the inn
> >> nntp server.
> >>
> >> Is there some "forum" type package that would be better
> >> than the inn system?
> >
> > You could install one of several (open source) CMS packages, that work
> > with a database (MySQL) and a Webserver (Apache) and are generally
> > coded in PHP. WordPress is a fairly simple system that might give you
> > what you want. Not exactly a "forum", but does allow people to
> > 'comment' on blog entries (posts), which might be all you need. It
> > does allow for the site adminstrator to grant authoring privs to other
> > users. And there might be plugins that implement full-fledged forums
> > (I haven't looked). Joomla! is a more comprehensive CMS system and it
> > does have extensions that implement forums.
>
> A wiki works well for this sort of thing too, especially if it has the
> ability to email notifications about updates. Inn/news does have an
> advantage in scaling and resource consumption, but the real issue here
> is retraining the users, especially if they are currently using a combo
> news/email client that automatically sees new messages posted to a
> group. I've always wondered if there is a free equivalent of the
> software running http://news.lugnet.com/ which seems to be
> simultaneously a web forum, a newsgroup, and an email list, depending on
> how you access it.
I think Mailman might have a news=>mailing list 'gateway' function and
I think there are news=>web forum gateway packages 'out there'. It is
possible http://news.lugnet.com/ is just a nntp server (eg inn) with
some 'addon' packages (eg Mailman).
>
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