I'm compelled to post since at the moment I am doing the oposite. Using rdesktop on a linux laptop to control the W2K Advanced Server box that has my SlimServer on it. I just thought that was funny.
JeffCharles Wrote: > I especially like what NWP wrote: "But the best part about a linux > server is you really don't need to administer it. Once it is set up, it > just runs and you can forget about it." Sounds good to me. That is dangerous advice. Unpatched computers are bad news. Historically unpatched unix-like machines were especially bad since a hacker could do more damage to your network from a unix-like macine than from a Windows machine. Now days I don't know if that is as true. Whatever you build you will need to keep it patched. Several distributions have automated ways of doing that. Personally I tend to build servers on SuSE since I have had very good luck with YOU (YaST Online Update.) The latest SuSE dropped YaST for something new that doesn't seem to work as well. Don't expect linux to be easy. It can be a huge time sink. If you are serious about *learning* linux, as opposed to *using* linux, you might want to try Gentoo. I have been a linux user for about seven years. Before that I was a user of FreeBSD, Irix, SunOS, and a little Solaris. I also admin a handfull of machines. I have learned as much in a couple months with Gentoo as I did in all those years with the others. You have to do frickin' everything by hand but you learn things like what the last two numbers in the /etc/fstab actually mean. I always wondered what they did. The Gentoo docs explained it. Good luck, and don't sell Windows short. It really doesn't suck any less than the others. Dan -- ComputerX ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ComputerX's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=6742 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=25891 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
