6 May
2002
6 May
'02
2:19 p.m.
On Mon, May 06, 2002 at 06:40:55PM -0600, Richard Erlacher wrote:
MS likes to claim to be "user friendly" but
they don't guarantee they're
frustration-free.
I've never had the frustration with Windows that I had with Linux during the
timespan when I was trying to get it to do what it claimed.
Oh, just today was enough. OS: Windows2000 (have to deal with it at
work). Install application - installer forces reboot. What the ...? Ok,
it's Windows, it's stupid. I never had to reboot any of my UNIX systems
for installing an application. Start application, change some _user_
_specific_ settings. Up pops a window, telling me that these changes
will only be effective after a reboot. What the bloody ...? Restarting
that application I could understand, but rebooting the entire machine?
I gave up on the various versions of Linux and *nix
that I had running, each
on their own box here at the house. For single tasks, e.g. terminal server,
Mail, News, it's fine and runs for ages without a problem. However, I'm not
so sure it's as trouble free when you want to use a single machine to do a
multitude of widely varying things.
Tell this my server at home. A single machine, doing;
- fileserver (currently NFS),
- user management server (NIS/YP),
- mail server (postfix),
- web proxy server (squid),
- web server (apache),
- database server (MySQL and PostgreSQL, both with several databases),
- network monitoring server (mrtg),
- network logging server,
- login and shell server for remote access,
- backup server (backing up to DDS2 tape),
Everything running fine, stable, reliable and fast.
Regards,
Alex.
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Those who desire to give up Freedom in order to gain Security, will not
have, nor do they deserve, either one. -- Benjamin Franklin