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Xref: sserve comp.sys.powerpc:30196 comp.sys.intel:25942 comp.os.misc:3543 comp.unix.bsd:15673 comp.unix.pc-clone.32bit:7833 comp.unix.sys5.r4:8878 comp.unix.misc:15178 comp.os.linux.development:21571 comp.os.linux.misc:32119 comp.os.linux.misc:32120 comp.os.386bsd.development:2862 comp.os.386bsd.misc:4497 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msunews!caen!night.primate.wisc.edu!news.doit.wisc.edu!calica 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 Lines: 39 Message-ID: <3d7a3l$93q@news.doit.wisc.edu> References: <3cilp3$143@news-2.csn.net> <3d4ucp$sbn@hearst.cac.psu.edu> <3d52i8$am5@galaxy.ucr.edu> <3d6o4n$k2q@hearst.cac.psu.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: hp-91.cae.wisc.edu 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. -- /------------------------------+--------------------------------------\ | Carlo J. Calica | Linux: Choice of the GNU Generation | | calica@cae.wisc.edu | Dittos from the People's | \ University of Wisconsin | Republic of Madison /