On Sun, 2 Jan 2000, Jon Biddell wrote:
> We are about to ditch Novell world-wide, and my 25 odd Netware servers will
> go to NT4.0 (thank God they didn't say 2000 !!) within the next 6 months.
> Then again, Netware has its' place - at the moment it's balancing the end
> of my BBQ !!!
Your loss.
Netware 5 is shit hot and, with the inclusion of the XFree86 GUI, can
potentially do _everything_ WindoZe does - including running desktop apps
on the server.
Of course, they have to be written as NLM's instead of the normal desktop
format - fat chance of Microsoft ever releasing Office in that format -
but the potential is there.
Yet another win for Linux over WindoZe.
One of the application developers at work wanted a low end backup "server"
for a database which needed about 10 gig of space.
No problems, I said - we'll just grab a desktop, replace the standard 6.4
gig drive with a 13 gig one, and away we go.
Easier said than done. NT _refused_ to install - all sorts of symptoms
from fdisk displaying "Maximum size for partition is 0 Mb" on a 13 gig
drive to installing proeprly but refusing to boot.
Followed Microsoft's "technical bulletin" to the letter, downloaded the
updated atapi.sys driver they claim was called for - forget it. This shit
did NOT happen. 3 days of trying wasted.
Grab my trusty RH 6.1 CD, stick it in the drive, boot from it, and 30
minutes later I had a working Linux box - including the 3C905B network
card, 4 meg built in graphics card and 21 inch monitor all recognised on
install and configured properly.
I'll see on Tuesday if he can run his server on a Samba machine via a
share. If so, I'll use bloody Linux instead of WinBlows.
DaZZa
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