From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jul 19 22:07:47 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4B722106564A for ; Tue, 19 Jul 2011 22:07:47 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from lobo@bsd.com.br) Received: from mail-gx0-f182.google.com (mail-gx0-f182.google.com [209.85.161.182]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0CA398FC1F for ; Tue, 19 Jul 2011 22:07:46 +0000 (UTC) Received: by gxk28 with SMTP id 28so2420375gxk.13 for ; Tue, 19 Jul 2011 15:07:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.236.191.198 with SMTP id g46mr83875yhn.498.1311113266305; Tue, 19 Jul 2011 15:07:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: from papi.localnet ([187.112.10.204]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id v25sm4632731yhk.78.2011.07.19.15.07.44 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Tue, 19 Jul 2011 15:07:45 -0700 (PDT) From: Mario Lobo To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2011 19:06:24 -0300 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.7 (FreeBSD/8.2-STABLE; KDE/4.6.2; amd64; ; ) References: In-Reply-To: X-KMail-Markup: true MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <201107191906.24823.lobo@bsd.com.br> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Subject: Re: 2020: Will BSD and Linux be relevant anymore? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2011 22:07:47 -0000 On Tuesday 19 July 2011 03:18:41 Konrad Heuer wrote: > > But: Neither BSD nor Linux will ever have chance to conquere the desktop, > despite of KDE, Gnome or anything else. In business environments there is > no alternative to Windows. Microsoft successfully created Active Directory > from DNS, LDAP and Kerberos with an easy-to-manage interface > > Konrad Heuer Err ... just a little correction here. Microsoft copied its AD deck from Novell Directory Services - NDS, shuffled the cards, added a few bits and pieces here and there and called it its own, having "some similarities" with NDS, as MS has ALWAYS been doing since DOS 1.0. I remember very well when the ease of management with NDS was well estabilished by NETWARE 6.xx (it showed up first in 5.xx) and delighting network admins who managed Novell environments (as I was doing at the time), when MS announced its, ahaam, "revolutionary" active directory services. NDS -> ADS. Like I said, just card shuffling. -- Mario Lobo http://www.mallavoodoo.com.br FreeBSD since 2.2.8 [not Pro-Audio.... YET!!] (99% winblows FREE)