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From: qqehe@oce.nl (Emile Heyns)
Subject: Re: Historic Opportunity facing Free Unix (was Re: The Lai/Baker paper, benchmarks, and the world of free UNIX)
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In article <4mlqih$qju@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu>,
	bdwheele@indiana.edu (Brian Wheeler) writes:
>In article <4m8b33$1g5u@news.missouri.edu>, rhys@vortex.cc.missouri.edu says...
>	WinNT is a hack of Windows crossed with VMS.  
>	I have yet to see the "advantages" of NT.  Sure, its pretty (sorta)
>but the hype about it being multiuser is a farce.  Multiuser in the sense
>that everyone stands in a line and uses one at a time.  It doesn't have
If anyone ever counters this, tell them to download *anything*
from ftp.microsoft.com.

>quotas (Ok, Linux has not had them for that long, but still, its got them.) 
>the administration utilities are nice, but alas, you've got to be at the
>console to do much of anything.  Its a memory hog as well.  

And, Linux can be made C2 secure with some effort (as any *nix) can.
NT can be made C2 secure -- but according to a recent usenet discussion
only if you unplug the keyboard and NIC.
Hah! If you unplug those, even a DOS box is secure.

And as for NT being solid: Yes it is more "solid" than DOS/WIN, then
again, what isn't. It is a vast improvement, and has the advantage of
being able to run all those nice win apps, but I do manage to
blue-screen it every once in a while. This will (hopefully) mature
in time, though.

BTW: I was under the impression NT had some fairly decent remote admin
capabilities. Or are these (third party) add-ons?

-- 
Bye,

Emile

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