One of the first things I found cool on UNIX was being able to start Netscape on one machine and have the screen displayed on another. And explain that this IS NOT Netop, PCAnywhere or VNC or another 3rd-party tool, but a natural part of X. X was DESIGNED to do this whereas Widows (Windows) needs a thirdparty-tool to do a much a technically less advanced screencapture.
Novell have made a great tool for their eDirectory (formerly known as NDS) called ConsoleOne. This is java-based. eDirectory runs on Linux, Netware, Win NT/2000, Solaris, AIX, True64 and is very very fast.
Hi.
I walked around and thought that Apache, PHP and MySQL/PostgreSQL/etc. would cut it along way, when it came to creating web-pages with dynamic web-content. Which it also does. But this article brought my perception into a new light. Because if we wan't to utilize open source software in the future, we probably need a framework that does the job.
Rather than creating a lot of nice/not-so-nice solutions in PHP, one might use tools suited and tested and proven stable to run an entire business.
Hi. Will Microsoft donate money and skills to help 3'rd world-countries minimizing the increasing gap that does exists between us living in the so called western world and "them", in terms of infrastructure (the Internet), hardware/software?
Mr. Gates has donated alot of money to WHO to do research and to buy vaccine for the 3'rd world. Maby MS could do the same when it comes to IT?
regards Claus Guttesen
Dear sirs. I can only say that you guys made a good decision.
I myself started out with Linux, but felt compelled with an add for FreeBSD where I could rebuild all binaries from source with a single command. After having tried to install and then some reinstalls, I have become very fond of FreeBSD and favor this rather than Linux. Especially the ports-collection is awesome.
Yahoo and Netcraft is prove of FreeBSD's maturity and robustness.
regards Claus
Hi. I fully understand your feelings about moving away from the US. Living in a country where the president-candidate with the most votes doens't get to sit in the white house, choosing a president which hasn't been outside the states more than a handfull times, choosing a president that didn't care for politics until a few years ago. Move to the "old world", Spain, Denmark, France, you will end up in a country which spents more money on education for the average person, than what the states spent on it's population. Good luck!
I'm very satisfied with Postfix as MTA. Used Postfix at my former employee. On a lowly pentium 133 and 48 MB RAM and RedHat 6.1 it relayed approx. 1 GB data each working day which was about 25.000-30.000 messages a day. This without any downtime. The utilization hardly topped 0.1. Very secure and very easy to configure. The mailing-list is also very responsive. Qmail (no experience) also sounds like a good alternative.
I've been working with Netware 4.x for some years, and is very aware of the fact that it's NDS which keeps Novell in the game. NDS does a lot of things which isn't available yet in BSD/Linux, and that is desktop-management via ZENworks. Large corp.s rely completely on some sort of desktop-management, and ZENworks is one of the most advanced. But the only environment you can manage is Win NT/9x/2000-clients.
Some of the comments on Novell's products appears to originate from people who manages a few servers and desktops (and may do that superbly) but has no clue on how to install, update, re-install, apply patches, perform changes in browsers proxy-settings etc., all changes performed from your own desktop via NWAdmin, without walking to each and every workstation. This is also called TCO. Try doing this via LDAP.
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One of the first things I found cool on UNIX was being able to start Netscape on one machine and have the screen displayed on another. And explain that this IS NOT Netop, PCAnywhere or VNC or another 3rd-party tool, but a natural part of X. X was DESIGNED to do this whereas Widows (Windows) needs a thirdparty-tool to do a much a technically less advanced screencapture.
Novell have made a great tool for their eDirectory (formerly known as NDS) called ConsoleOne. This is java-based. eDirectory runs on Linux, Netware, Win NT/2000, Solaris, AIX, True64 and is very very fast.
Get some hardware, install either *BSD or Linux, set up different services on it, change the configs etc. Slowly you'll get the hang of it.
Hi.
I walked around and thought that Apache, PHP and MySQL/PostgreSQL/etc. would cut it along way, when it came to creating web-pages with dynamic web-content. Which it also does. But this article brought my perception into a new light. Because if we wan't to utilize open source software in the future, we probably need a framework that does the job.
Rather than creating a lot of nice/not-so-nice solutions in PHP, one might use tools suited and tested and proven stable to run an entire business.
Hi. Will Microsoft donate money and skills to help 3'rd world-countries minimizing the increasing gap that does exists between us living in the so called western world and "them", in terms of infrastructure (the Internet), hardware/software?
Mr. Gates has donated alot of money to WHO to do research and to buy vaccine for the 3'rd world. Maby MS could do the same when it comes to IT?
regards Claus Guttesen
Dear sirs. I can only say that you guys made a good decision.
I myself started out with Linux, but felt compelled with an add for FreeBSD where I could rebuild all binaries from source with a single command. After having tried to install and then some reinstalls, I have become very fond of FreeBSD and favor this rather than Linux. Especially the ports-collection is awesome.
Yahoo and Netcraft is prove of FreeBSD's maturity and robustness.
regards Claus
Hi. I fully understand your feelings about moving away from the US. Living in a country where the president-candidate with the most votes doens't get to sit in the white house, choosing a president which hasn't been outside the states more than a handfull times, choosing a president that didn't care for politics until a few years ago.
Move to the "old world", Spain, Denmark, France, you will end up in a country which spents more money on education for the average person, than what the states spent on it's population. Good luck!
I'm very satisfied with Postfix as MTA. Used Postfix at my former employee. On a lowly pentium 133 and 48 MB RAM and RedHat 6.1 it relayed approx. 1 GB data each working day which was about 25.000-30.000 messages a day. This without any downtime. The utilization hardly topped 0.1. Very secure and very easy to configure. The mailing-list is also very responsive. Qmail (no experience) also sounds like a good alternative.
I've been working with Netware 4.x for some years, and is very aware of the fact that it's NDS which keeps Novell in the game. NDS does a lot of things which isn't available yet in BSD/Linux, and that is desktop-management via ZENworks. Large corp.s rely completely on some sort of desktop-management, and ZENworks is one of the most advanced. But the only environment you can manage is Win NT/9x/2000-clients. Some of the comments on Novell's products appears to originate from people who manages a few servers and desktops (and may do that superbly) but has no clue on how to install, update, re-install, apply patches, perform changes in browsers proxy-settings etc., all changes performed from your own desktop via NWAdmin, without walking to each and every workstation. This is also called TCO. Try doing this via LDAP.