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From: calica@cae.wisc.edu (Carlo James Calica)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.powerpc,comp.sys.intel,comp.os.misc,comp.unix.bsd,comp.unix.pc-clone.32bit,comp.unix.sys5.r4,comp.unix.misc,comp.os.linux.development,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.386bsd.development,comp.os.386bsd.misc
Subject: Re: Interested in PowerPC for Linux / FreeBSD / NetBSD?
Date: 20 Dec 1994 19:08:37 GMT
Organization: College of Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison
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In article <3d6o4n$k2q@hearst.cac.psu.edu>,
Kenneth J. Hoover <ken@psuedvax.ed.psu.edu> wrote:
>
>  Boy did I pick the wrong group to post this to.  Well, here goes.  Be warned
>this is kinda long.
>
>In article <3d52i8$am5@galaxy.ucr.edu>, jjs@dostoevsky.ucr.edu (Joe Sloan) writes:
>>In article <3d4ucp$sbn@hearst.cac.psu.edu>, I wrote:
>>>In article <3d4o1h$7bh@galaxy.ucr.edu>, jjs@dostoevsky.ucr.edu (Joe Sloan) 
>>>writes:
>
>  Okay, some ground rules.  I'm talking about NT *SERVER* here when used AS A
>SERVER.  NT workstation is something I don't have direct experience with.  So
>let's begin.
>
>  Yeah.  Features and stability, which I'll take over bugs and bombs any time
>for a production environment.  The job of a sys/net admin is to PREVENT that
>phone from ringing.  If done right, it hardly ever does.
>
Stability???  My only experience with NT was with Corel Draw.  This wonderful
OS wouldn't let me save a 500K file on the HD with 400 Megs free.  Kept on
complaining about no free space.  NT couldn't also connect to the netware
printers so I couldn't save or print my work.  Just great for a production
environment.  This wasn't the server but if the Workstation can't save I'm
not trusting it as a server.

I am running a Linux network at home with DOS (Windows) and OS/2 machines
connected for fun.  Getting the network up and running under Linux was MUCH
easier than configuring all the TSRs for DOS.  I have setup a Linux
machine as a firewall with proxy running to give the other machines access
to the outside wall.  I have setup remote printing under Linux and Windows.
Am also running Named.  All of this was by using the Network Adminstators
Guide and the various HOWTOs.  I have access to the HPUX manuals but the
LDP stuff is better. 
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