[WEB4LIB] Re: Thanx and Linux

[Vladislav S. Davidzon]

I would have to disagree.  No doubt, Linux is absolutely wonderful out of
the box as far as remote administration.  Give it an IP, stick it at a
client's site, and its ready to go for you to setup remotely.  However, I
was really impressed with how nicely Remotely Possible 32 worked.  The
remote capabilities of Windows NT with add-on software are great.

I've played with various telnet applications for NT.  Absolutely useless
pieces of trash.  Considering the fact that 99% of all configuration is done
via the registry, you can't do much.

Linux is much more straight forward than NT.  However, an experienced NT
systems admin knows how and where to gather all the information he/she needs
to do their job.

You also can't just look at the out of the box price.  NT may be much more
expensive than Linux [by hundreds of dollars] but long term it may save you
money depending on what kind of training and experience your staff have.

-vsd

-----Original Message-----
From: Thomas Dowling [mailto:tdowling at ohiolink.edu]
Sent: Monday, December 21, 1998 3:40 PM
To: vladislav at davidzon.com; Multiple recipients of list
Subject: Re: [WEB4LIB] Re: Thanx and Linux



>
>Using remotely possible or another product you can do maintenance to an
NT
>server from home. Although it would be nice if MS built it into their
>software =|
>

It's pretty obvious which platform has better remote access possibilities,
but I will say on NT's behalf that Microsoft is beta testing a suite of
apps called "NT Services for Unix".  It has an NFS server and client, a
telnetd server (so you can finally telnet into your NT box), a version of
the Korn Shell, and a handful of Unix command line utilities: grep, wc,
sort, uniq, wc, etc.  Also vi, which makes me happy.  I've lost the direct
URL for it, but that's why M'Soft has a search engine on its web site, no?

[I am not suggesting that telnetting to a korn shell on NT is an adequate
substitute for real Unix.]