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From: Rick Kelly <rmk@rmkhome.com>
Newsgroups: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Linux or FreeBSD (or something else?)
Date: 5 Apr 1997 19:27:18 GMT
Organization: The Man With Ten Cats
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In comp.os.linux.misc Vincent F. Scarafino <Scarafino@multics-a.pms.ford.com> wrote:
: One item I'm surprised nobody mentioned--more than one person
: cannot log into and use an NT machine at the same time.
: It is *NOT* multi-user.
: Seems like a significant "thing" to me.
Actually, there are a number of solutions.
I've had experience with NTrigue, effectively NT with extensions that allow
multiple users to log in simultaneously from UNIX boxes and get an NT
desktop.
It works, but it also points out the fact that applications that run on NT
have faulty understanding of user and system security. And the per seat
license fee is high.
NT is truly horrible to maintain and support. Bad performance. Backwards
compatibility problems. Less than intuitive system interface. Bleah.
--
Rick Kelly rmk@seahag.rmkhome.com rmk@rmkhome.com
<a href="http://tencats.rmkhome.com/">tencats</a>