12 Dec
2011
12 Dec
'11
8:41 p.m.
On Dec 12, 2011, at 7:34 PM, Toby Thain wrote:
It probably wouldn't have been a terrible idea if it had been used like NIS/YP, i.e.
mostly in a networked workgroup context. I think it's terrible as a local machine
config repository. Can't see the damned forest for the abstraction.
- Dave
It was a bad
idea in NeXTSTEP, and an even worse idea in OS X. Good
riddance.
Is it really worse than NIS/YP (in fact NetInfo gives me the impression it was meant to
supersede it?)