On Thu, 20 Jul 2000, Howard Schultens wrote:
> "J�rgen Weltzer" wrote:
> >
> >
> > Netatalk is not irrelevant!!!
> >
> > I have 5 older Macs who'll need Apple Talk Support in future. Because
> > I'm not Bill Gates I can't trash these Macs and buy some new ones.
>
> Precisely!! A possible alternative to Netatalk will be MacOSX Server,
> which we are testing right now. Presently, there is no comparison
> to Linux. MacOSX Server is missing many services and is completely
> without
> any of the comfortable utilities that Linux has. Apart from the
> core NetBSD it apparently tries to do a things with ideas
> from NextStep and adds a proprietary parallel system of users,
> groups, permissions, etc. With Apple's resources and future
> existence behind it, it may amount to something in a year or two --
> but it aint there yet.
I am not sure what comfortable utilities you speak of. MacOS X Server is
very complete and NetInfo is completely open source and extensible
(publicsource.apple.com)
Typical FUD from gnu types.
-mab
>
> > 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'm starting to preach. I'll stop here and continue in
> comp.os.linux.advocacy.
>
>
> -- Howard
>
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