Re: NFS Under OS X (was Re: pre-asun2.1.4-39)

[Ray Zimmerman]

At 12:57 PM +0200 7/20/00, Howard Schultens wrote:
>"J�rgen Weltzer" wrote:
>  > It will be much cheaper to trash the Linux-box and take a NT-box to
>>  serve the Macs... Is this the way?????
>>
>
>How can you say that?  The only way this can be cheaper is if you
>have a cast-off NT system that you take over from someone else.
>If you have to actually PAY for it, Linux only costs around
>80 Marks in Germany (SuSE 6.4), has all the services that NT offers
>and more, and will use your hardware more effectively.  You can actually
>USE a Linux server for other work without the danger of it crashing.
>Try to install anything on a running NT server:  90% of all
>packages demand that you restart the system.  Forget it.  You can't
>use it for anything but a server.
>
>What I am saying is that the price of the NT software AND the
>fact that you don't get to use the system for anything else
>make the effective cost much higher than a Linux system.

I think he was saying that if netatalk dies it would be cheaper to
"upgrade" his server to NT to be able to keep serving his old Macs,
than to upgrade the Macs to play nicely in a AppleTalk-less world.

        Ray