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Xref: sserve comp.sys.powerpc:30255 comp.sys.intel:26089 comp.os.misc:3548 comp.unix.bsd:15679 comp.unix.pc-clone.32bit:7842 comp.unix.sys5.r4:8883 comp.unix.misc:15190 comp.os.linux.development:21600 comp.os.linux.misc:32153 comp.os.linux.misc:32154 comp.os.386bsd.development:2868 comp.os.386bsd.misc:4503 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 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msunews!uwm.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!newton!brian From: brian@burton.frostburg.md.us (Brian Burton) Subject: Re: Interested in PowerPC for Linux / FreeBSD / NetBSD? Organization: none Message-ID: <D152CI.6p@burton.frostburg.md.us> References: <3cilp3$143@news-2.csn.net> <MICHAELV.94Dec19115633@MindBender.HeadCandy.com> <3d4o1h$7bh@galaxy.ucr.edu> <3d4ucp$sbn@hearst.cac.psu.edu> Date: Wed, 21 Dec 1994 02:17:06 GMT Lines: 30 In article <3d4ucp$sbn@hearst.cac.psu.edu>, Kenneth J. Hoover <ken@psuedvax.ed.psu.edu> wrote: >In article <3d4o1h$7bh@galaxy.ucr.edu>, jjs@dostoevsky.ucr.edu (Joe Sloan) >writes: >>Windows NT is a joke! It is fine for simple folk who want to play >>solitaire, type their letters is MS Word, and run whatever the latest >>trendy MS applications happen to be, > > Many UN*X people equate "lack of NFS" with "bad networking" in Windows NT. >This is a serious mistake. One of my favorite tricks to show NT unbelievers is >to mount MS's anon FTP site as a drive on my NT server box and then proceed to >examine their archives from the file mangler just like I search thru my CD-ROM. >It takes about 30 seconds. All without NFS over a distance of about 2500 >miles. Big deal. ange-ftp can accomplish the same thing within emacs - and it's free. You certainly under estimate the importance of NFS. Personally, I think that Microsoft chooses to ignore the open standards that exist within the UNIX world so that users who deploy a few NT servers will be under greater pressure to move away from UNIX. > Un*x has no real place in an office environment (yeah, right... someone will >tell me that where they work all their secretaries write memos with TeX). NT >is designed to be a high-performance SERVER for the (gaack) "enterprise" >that's easy to admin while being B2-level secure [yeah, I know it's only been >C2-certified so far], not some kind of thrill ride for the computer- >masochistic like UN*X is. Oh please. You exagerate the difficulty of administering a Linux machine. Commercial UNIX platforms are often even easier to maintain.