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Samba: Less Important Because Windows Is Less Important

Posted by Unknown on from the liberating-windows-users dept.

Jeremy Allison - Sam writes "Interview Bruce Byfield did with me after the Samba 4.0 release. Discusses interactions with Microsoft, the future of the code and project, and many other things."

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  1. Re:First posting? by aoteoroa · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Samba is absolutely still important. We just take SAMBA for granted now more than ever because it is pre-installed everywhere in almost every appliance. For example buy a $20 internet 'router' from Best Buy that can share a connected USB drive over a LAN and it probably uses SAMBA for functionality.

  2. Re:First posting? by GameboyRMH · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I use Samba at home for my media file shares, and probably still would have even if Windows interoperability wasn't an issue, it's widely supported by most non-Windows OSes (except iOS, the first OS where you need to pay to add on a Samba client. Progress!)

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    "When information is power, privacy is freedom" - Jah-Wren Ryel
  3. Re:First posting? by Jeremy+Allison+-+Sam · · Score: 5, Insightful

    And it still probably won't come with an offer for source code (sigh :-).

    Jeremy.