Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2000 21:52:12 -0700 (PDT) From: Darren Pilgrim <dmp@aracnet.com> To: Rick Hamell <hamellr@heorot.1nova.com> Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Unix 2000... Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0009272141290.12049-100000@shell1.aracnet.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0009261858300.34251-100000@heorot.1nova.com>
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On Tue, 26 Sep 2000, Rick Hamell wrote: > I'm in Windows 2000 training all this week. (Ick... but the > company is paying for it...) Everytime I turn around, there is yet another > Unix concept staring me in the face.... :) there is an /etc directory now > with hosts, services and protocalls all in there. The file system now has > DTF (distributed tree filesystem(?) which can span hard > drives/computers. Windows 2000 now supports the concept of MOUNTing > directories (so that you're not limited to 26 drives/partitions.) AND now > has "groups," You can put people into certain groups and they don't have > (or do have) access to certain devices/files... I've been taking to > calling it Unix 2000 in the class! :) I've got a Win2kAS box I've been playing with at home, and I have to say it's drastically improved since NT4. For a small-time, non-critical server, it's a nice way to go, damned easy, anyway. But the startling number of superficial similarities to unix leaves one wondering about Microsoft's intentions. Are they finally starting to adopt the unix way of doing things for the purpose of making it easier to bring unix admins to NT, or are they doing it just to say, "Hey look! We do that too!"? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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