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PHP for NetWare Beta Released

Posted by chrisd on from the mad-props-to-the-provo-php-homies dept.

Twintop writes "Taken from the PHP.net homepage: 'A Beta version of PHP for NetWare is available on the Novell Developer Kit site. This version is based on the 4.0.8 (development) version of the PHP source code.' --- Well, even if it is an old version, it's better than nothing for NetWare peeps."

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  1. Re:Good, or bad. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Interesting

    I totally agree. I would also add that NetWare's access privilege system is very, very much superior to that of un*x. I.e. trustees (aka ACL's), inheritance, inheritance mask - nice, easy, obvious, powerful, all you can ever need. Unix totally sucks at file and directory permissions. Sorry to say that - I love Linux - but anyone who's ever administered NetWare has to agree...

  2. Re:Good, or bad. by billcopc · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Well, I'm seeing Netware from a user's point of view. That's what they use at my workplace, and although I'm sure they've got it horribly misconfigured, it's just a big pain in the ass. Now perhaps Netware itself is ok, I honestly don't know a thing about it, but all the Novell apps that run on it seem like pure crap that just exists as a political statement. Especially Groupwise.. unstable, inflexible, won't even talk to our NT servers.. we're just stuck supporting multiple standards that don't want to coexist. Windows talks to linux, linux talks to windows, Novell talks to its shadow while giving everyone else the finger. We're lucky to have a GroupwiseSMTP gateway, otherwise our entire network would be a big black box.

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    -Billco, Fnarg.com
  3. Re:Good, or bad. by deviator · · Score: 2, Interesting
    Netware's file system (& NDS-linked trustee system) is one of my reasons for sticking by Netware... it really does make so much more sense than almost everything else out there. Rights simply "flow" down the hierarchy... plus you have a lot more attributes available, and it's not an "all or nothing" deal like Unix... you could give every user on your network a different set of rights to a file.

    I hear AFS does a lot of this, though...