[ale] Recommendations for my next distro?

[DJ-Pfulio]

Server to server kerberos isn't THAT hard on Debian/Ubuntu, NFSv4.

I've never bothered with kerberos for user logins.

On 03/01/2015 09:00 AM, Jim Kinney wrote:
> Ovirt is large. Very large. It's design is to directly challenge VMware. So,
> yes, very large and designed to be deployed across multiple physical systems.
> 
> My grouse with it is the vast amount of java it's written in. But that's all
> only for the web GUI and it's linking to the back end.  The back end is all
> libvirt :-)
> 
> I've used it to setup some developers with the ability to generate a VM that's a
> clone of an existing devel environment with (yuck) Oracle ready to go for very
> specific testing needs then drop it in the trash. As I don't have control of the
> network, I can only setup test VM s with private lan  networking which I do
> control. Ovirt uses spice to provide a console, CLI or X, and the access is over
> the single, public IP. PluscI can lock down user access with FreeIPA :-)
> 
> Yeah, that is a security issue having that much java web code. But the entire
> process is designed to run with full SELinux lock down. That does much to
> mitigate the damage from a break in.
> 
> Ovirt is NOT for desktop users to run a few VMs with. Virt-manager does that
> very well. Ovirt's to run a large collection of VMs that's managed by multiple
> admins across multiple servers with large-scale shared storage (NFS is default
> but iSCSI from a SAN is preferred).
> 
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