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OSS Unix: Dividing & Conquering Itself
(Score.5, Interestin writes "Security guru Marcus Ranum has some interesting thoughts about how a continuing lack of consistency among Unix systems (and particularly Linux) is hurting Linux (and remaining commercial Unix vendors like Sun) and helping Microsoft. Admittedly this has been said before, but no-one else quite manages to phrase things the way Marcus can."
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oooo...my head.
You can do network auth using ldap. You can encrypt it with ssl.
You can use nfs to mount home directories. And HEY! When you login, no matter the machine, you have *your* settings. And here's the part that ms is still trying to get right: You don't have to load your profile over the network. That's right, it mounts the drive and from that point forward, it treats it as local. No mismatch versions on the server, no sync errors, nada.
So please do your research before hand.
Mod me down with all of your hatred and your journey towards the dark side will be complete!
OK, I'll add yet another audio API to the list. Heard of it, lost track of it. To many bloody audio API's to keep track of and figure out which one is IN and which ones are OUT.
How many actual Linux machines is it installed on? Not on mine.
Didn't have the license immediately obvious on the web page. Is there a BSD'ish license that lets you link it in to a commerical app to get around it not being installed everywhere.
How exactly does it get around that fact that if the machine is running OSS, which is still the standard on 2.4.x kernels, and some other app has the sound device allocted that it can't get to it. Its not terrible getting one app to work with audio on Linux, its more of a pain to get two or more apps to work on Linux at the same time and share.
@de_machina