Date: Mon, 8 Oct 2001 08:59:28 -0500 (CDT) From: Chris Dillon <cdillon@wolves.k12.mo.us> To: Evan Sarmiento <evms@cs.bu.edu> Cc: <freebsd-chat@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: FreeBSD and Active Directory Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.32.0110080849140.26580-100000@mail.wolves.k12.mo.us> In-Reply-To: <15297.41416.171067.316227@csa.bu.edu>
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On Mon, 8 Oct 2001, Evan Sarmiento wrote: > Our situation is a little different. I go to a private school. The > coordinator has to take care of fourteen PCs in the lab and the > ten or so iMACS the faculty has. He's not oppossed to us > configuring our own machines. He told me that he would allow > anyone to connect Windows 9x boxen to the network, he's _only_ > opposed to UNIX boxen. Ah, well, that's different. In my situation, I'm actually more opposed to various stray Windows boxen (which always seem to be mis-configured) showing up on the network than I am of any kind of *nix box. I'd actually prefer a whole bunch more *nix boxes (FreeBSD especially) around here, but that isn't the way the world works at this time. > Our school, (you might already have head this), is intertwined > with Boston University. You could assume that the Boston > University IT officials are his superiors. In any case, the > University allows any sort of laptop or computer to be used on the > network, but, they only allow support for certain operating > systems. There are about thirty to forty people who take care of > numerous clusters and atleast 20,000 boxen. One person for every 500 machines... That's stretching staff quite a bit if every one of the machines is owned/managed by the school, but I'm assuming that a good number of those are actually student-owned machines. > It seems that one person would be able to handle 24 computers, > which work perfectly most of the time. Yes, that should be no problem for anyone except possibly a technophobe. -- Chris Dillon - cdillon@wolves.k12.mo.us - cdillon@inter-linc.net FreeBSD: The fastest and most stable server OS on the planet - Available for IA32 (Intel x86) and Alpha architectures - IA64, PowerPC, UltraSPARC, and ARM architectures under development - http://www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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