What a bunch of hooey. I have used the Services for Unix, and they are nothing but trouble. I had to setup a Windows box with SFU for NIS and NFS, and it was nothing but trouble, caused BSODs, and was SLOW. The answer, I had also setup an install of Samba on our Solaris server, and we went back to using it and removing the SFU for the HOI (He?? of it).
End result, we had faster performance, more reliability from the WinBoxen we used, and no crashes (to bad I HAD to rely on MS solution on the client side...).
Funny, I use VNC on just that kind of network, and while it is true that it is not "blazing fast", I am able to run some graphics intensive programs from my home machine and monitor them from work, and still have it be responsive enough to understand what is going on...
From the previous post:
Microsoft uses much more object oriented versions of the shared libraries, and thus it *does* take a bit longer to track down the actual source of the problem, and make sure the fix doesn't break alot more; but that's also what's allowed them to do alot of the things that sells windows (common user interface, good cut/paste)
Bull... If object oriented is such a problem, why do projects such as KDE come out with bug fixes and security updates in a rather rapid fashion? And as far as using object oriented and making the GUI look better... I don't buy that one. I use KDE, and I like it, but most of the competing window managers use C as there code base, and I think most people would agree that GNOME has a very good, clean, and usable interface for being hampered with plain C and any other bindings it may use...
I don't buy this completely... I did part time work for a small school district that had received a grant for a computer lab (I maintained the labs for them). Part of the funding had to go to educational software. The greatest majority of teachers at that school district used the software as it was designed, ie, as testing and additional resources, not as a surrogate teacher. In that respect, I think that a computer lab containing educational software is very useful. I would very much like to see the day that a major software producer of educational software decides to port something to Linux or BSD.
You don't have to have Linux on the laptop...
VNCViewer happens to work very well under Windows just as it does under Linux. And, with SSH and some other trickery, you can even use secure connections.
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What a bunch of hooey. I have used the Services for Unix, and they are nothing but trouble. I had to setup a Windows box with SFU for NIS and NFS, and it was nothing but trouble, caused BSODs, and was SLOW. The answer, I had also setup an install of Samba on our Solaris server, and we went back to using it and removing the SFU for the HOI (He?? of it).
End result, we had faster performance, more reliability from the WinBoxen we used, and no crashes (to bad I HAD to rely on MS solution on the client side...).
Funny, I use VNC on just that kind of network, and while it is true that it is not "blazing fast", I am able to run some graphics intensive programs from my home machine and monitor them from work, and still have it be responsive enough to understand what is going on...
Bull... If object oriented is such a problem, why do projects such as KDE come out with bug fixes and security updates in a rather rapid fashion? And as far as using object oriented and making the GUI look better... I don't buy that one. I use KDE, and I like it, but most of the competing window managers use C as there code base, and I think most people would agree that GNOME has a very good, clean, and usable interface for being hampered with plain C and any other bindings it may use...
I don't buy this completely... I did part time work for a small school district that had received a grant for a computer lab (I maintained the labs for them). Part of the funding had to go to educational software. The greatest majority of teachers at that school district used the software as it was designed, ie, as testing and additional resources, not as a surrogate teacher. In that respect, I think that a computer lab containing educational software is very useful. I would very much like to see the day that a major software producer of educational software decides to port something to Linux or BSD.
You don't have to have Linux on the laptop... VNCViewer happens to work very well under Windows just as it does under Linux. And, with SSH and some other trickery, you can even use secure connections.