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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.os.linux.advocacy Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!metro!metro!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!usenet.eel.ufl.edu!arclight.uoregon.edu!news.dacom.co.kr!usenet.seri.re.kr!news.cais.net!news.mathworks.com!news.kei.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in2.uu.net!EU.net!sun4nl!oce.nl!not-for-mail!news 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) X-Nntp-Posting-Host: st26-oa6 Message-ID: <Dr2upJ.82r@oce.nl> Sender: news@oce.nl (The Daily News @ nntp01.oce.nl) Organization: Oce Nederland B.V. - Research & Development X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.3 References: <4ki055$60l@radon.stanford.edu> <ufafzyge0o.fsf@cumulus.sky.bln.sub.org> <4m8b33$1g5u@news.missouri.edu> <4mlqih$qju@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> Date: Wed, 8 May 1996 08:10:31 GMT Lines: 42 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.development.system:23367 comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc:938 comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:3696 comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:3532 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:18981 comp.os.linux.advocacy:48551 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 =========================================================== Emile Heyns email: emile.heyns@hta.nl =========================================================== Alla sani sa mi e taki na ini disi email na mi denki wawan -- A no abi fu de dati mi wrokope abi na sem denki. =========================================================== People will accept your ideas much more readily if you tell them that Benjamin Franklin said it first.