[Thermodyne]

Originally posted by minipol:

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Originally posted by Thermodyne:
Linux does some things well, but I wouldn't want to manage several thousand Users with it.

What, you would rather do that with a win machine? Linux has one big advantage over windows and it's that it enables you to use older hardware for usefull things. So an old pentium machine can still run as firewall, fileserver and webserver. Try the same with windows and you'll fail horribly. That's what i like about linux, all my old computers now still do something in my LAN.
Another example: i have a Primax scanner. Worked great in Win98. Then i switched to XP Pro and it didn't work anymore since there where no drivers available. I then found a program that worked with my scanner in linux so now i can switch to whatever distro, my scanner still works.
I'm not saying win is bad but they always try to force you to buy new stuff and i don't like that. Hell they don't even support their own stuff: my sidewinder II joystick isn't officialy supported on XP Pro.
Anyways, for servers, linux is the way to go. Then can handle a bigger load than windows on machines less powerful

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From an enterprise point of view, it will be replaced before it gets that out of date. On the
network that I support, we have clients that run 95 and 98 of all flavors, and we have 2K and XP. We also have thin clients that run CE. This all runs on a NT domain with 2K member servers and a 2K based Citrix farm. We have 22 field offices on frame relay and prolly that many more single unit offices on dial up. The equipment in the Data center will run 2K or 03K with no problem. The workstations run what they were purchased with. We also run an AS300 with UNIX. Firewall, switches and routers are all Cisco. My TC’s have no ram and no HD’s. Almost half of the workstations are 400 cel’s with 32megs of ram. They all run windows with nothing more than the occasional hardware death and the usual PITA group
problems. I can drive any one of the PC’s right from my desk, and if the TC’c have a software
issue, a re-flash is few key strokes away. On most days, the net techs are just sitting on their
butts. If it wasn’t for blind Users and the PITA’s, we could support it all with one tech. Why would we want to go with Xnix? What will it give us? And don’t try that cost per unit stuff on me. I can buy a lot of windows for what a tech costs per year. Not to mention what the PITA
group would grow to. I think Xnix has its place, and it will help improve the standard of the
industry, but I think I’ll keep paying my 17 bucks a unit for XP pro.