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From: mi@rtfm.ziplink.net (Mikhail Teterin)
Newsgroups: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Linux or FreeBSD (or something else?)
Date: 17 Apr 1997 15:16:51 GMT
Organization: Aldan at Newton Upper Falls
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Honorable tedm@portsoft.com
wrote on 17 Apr (in article <5j4egh$sjc$7@easystreet03>):
>>=No one mentioned that because it's wrong. Just start the telnet
>>=daemon from the resource kit.
>>
>>And how is the security addressed then? Can I, being logged in
>>remotely, see the network shares mounted by someone else?
=No.
So, drive F: can be different for different people? I'm sure 80%
of third party apps (and, 20% of NT's own) will start failing with
misterious reasons (like "Check your vendor's diskettes"). Not to
mention "the training cost", which is claimed to be lower on NT.
>>Also, with (almost) none of command line administration utilities,
>>what's the point of logging in remotely? What can I do with the
>>dos command line?
=Lots. First in mind you can do a "net use" and it's family of
=friends to get access to other shares. FTP is also command line.
=There are a number of others as well, many networking commands.
=Many NT administrative commands have command line counterparts, I
=know a lot of stupid NT admins that ran out and bought the NT
=resource kit just to get a graphical interface to the system
=scheduler, not even knowing that the "at" command existed, for
=example.
=NT also runs OS/2 character-mode programs. (bet you didn't know
=that either)
=There is also a lot of Unix character-mode stuff ported to NT.
Please, pardon me, if I refuse to believe they work properly. I am
speaking of experience and used many of them already. You may buy
lots of stuff which will half work. Damn, even NT's _own_ rsh hangs
on occasion without any explanation to it.
MKS tools (pretty good set, btw), started to fail (PATH screwed up),
when we upgraded to NT4.0. Why is PATH called Path on NT?
Making NT a decent server ot a development machine is a horrible
pain, which may go to waste after upgrade.
And finally, you just end-up with Unix-like machine (you can even get
X for it for extra money). So why bother at all? No reason, other then
a bunch of dummies demanding software for it.
=If you want to trash NT, I'd suggest starting with it's elephantine
=resource requirements first. There's plenty of rich material
=there to keep you occupied for a long time.
Well, the amount of software bugs and design flaws trashed NT for
me long ago. Sad. Some say it was a decently designed kernel long
ago.
-mi
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