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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Re:Biggest gripe

[grasshoppa]

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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.