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Anatomy of a Successful Enterprise Linux Distro?

Posted by Cliff on from the what-pieces-do-corporations-drool-over dept.

phenix asks: "With the new release of Novell Linux Desktop, and the upcoming release of Sun JDS3, I am curious to hear how these two suites, and their underlying enterprise infrastructures (JES and OES) compare. Specifically, I am interested in their ease of management/deployment in these areas: directory services, productivity (office) applications, centralized application serving, centralized document storage, groupware, and remote application installation. All of these, of course, without the use of Windows products like Exchange and Windows technologies like Active Directory. Is there a better alternative?"

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  1. Just like by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    The anatomy of the unicorn. They're both mythical creatures.

    1. Re:Just like by Draknor · · Score: 2, Funny

      Then surely SOMEONE on /. would have seen it by now!

  2. Obligatory bash quote by Mad+Merlin · · Score: 3, Funny
    man
    <Saty> active directory is to system resources
    <Saty> what joseph stalin was to human rights

    linky

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  3. Steps to a better Enterprise by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    1. Get rid of Berman and Braga

    Ohhhh, were on about Linux in the enterprise.

  4. Best Distro for Enterprise: Roll Your Own. by torpor · · Score: 4, Funny

    There is absolutely no reason for a company wanting to use Linux, to not have its administrators roll their own distro, with their own builds of whatever apps they need.

    "Enterprise" means "not being too lazy to do it properly, so that it works" in my book, so before you MSCDE weenies get all GUI, let me just insult you all right now: if you aren't rolling your own, you're a mouse monkey at best..

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  5. Re:Well by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    "Yes. It's called Windows."

    AAAAARRRRGGGHHHH.....

  6. Wrong Again, n00b by soloport · · Score: 2, Funny

    No, "RTFM" is by far the most cross-platform application ever developed.

    So, before you ask for help from one of us, please RTFM and check the bug listings, first.

    :-D

  7. It only takes three commands by imtheguru · · Score: 5, Funny

    it only takes three commands to install Gentoo

    cfdisk /dev/hda && mkfs.xfs /dev/hda1 && mount /dev/hda1 /mnt/gentoo/ && chroot /mnt/gentoo/ && env-update && . /etc/profile && emerge sync && cd /usr/portage && scripts/bootsrap.sh && emerge system && emerge vim && vi /etc/fstab && emerge gentoo-dev-sources && cd /usr/src/linux && make menuconfig && make install modules_install && emerge gnome mozilla-firefox openoffice && emerge grub && cp /boot/grub/grub.conf.sample /boot/grub/grub.conf && vi /boot/grub/grub.conf && grub && init 6

    that's the first one

    Source Bash.org

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  8. +1 Homosexual by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny
    My new iFruit is just FAAABULOUS!

    You can deploy Macs, and make your corporation FAAABULOUS too!