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Date:      Sat, 18 May 1996 19:48:51 +0100
From:      "Gary Palmer" <gpalmer@FreeBSD.ORG>
To:        Thomas David Rivers <ponds!rivers@dg-rtp.dg.com>
Cc:        lambert.org!terry@dg-rtp.dg.com, valtech@caribnet.net, questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: SMIT(System Maintenance Interface Tool) 
Message-ID:  <16914.832445331@palmer.demon.co.uk>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 18 May 1996 09:39:21 EDT." <199605181339.JAA08152@lakes> 

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Thomas David Rivers wrote in message ID
<199605181339.JAA08152@lakes>:
>  Well - just to throw in that ever-dissenting opinion - but,
> I have to manage several machines; one of which is AIX.  All
> of them are easy to handle, except for the AIX machine, because
> of SMIT... 

A survey in the UK disagrees. It highlights the fact that a central
management interface for the maintence and configuration of AIX makes
AIX more cost effective to run than Windows NT server, and several
other ``popular'' operating systems. I believe I posted the article on
-chat, if you want to look in the archive.

>  So, to address the original question, of "When will have SMIT"
> (paraphrased) - I hope the answer is "we won't - we'll (someday)
> have something better"...

The answer is ``we will have a system management tool, hopefully this
year'' ... since I have never seen SMIT, I can't comment if it will be
``better'' or not.

Gary
--
Gary Palmer                                          FreeBSD Core Team Member
FreeBSD: Turning PC's into workstations. See http://www.FreeBSD.ORG/ for info



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