Date: Fri, 3 Mar 2000 00:33:36 +0000 From: Mark Ovens <mark@ukug.uk.freebsd.org> To: Joseph Scott <joseph.scott@owp.csus.edu> Cc: Jonathon McKitrick <jcm@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org>, Kris Kennaway <kris@hub.freebsd.org>, freebsd-chat <chat@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: any news on w2k in the world? Message-ID: <20000303003336.B327@marder-1> In-Reply-To: <38BEC002.5AD7CE8@owp.csus.edu>; from joseph.scott@owp.csus.edu on Thu, Mar 02, 2000 at 11:24:50AM -0800 References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0003021850270.93707-100000@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> <38BEC002.5AD7CE8@owp.csus.edu>
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On Thu, Mar 02, 2000 at 11:24:50AM -0800, Joseph Scott wrote:
>
> Jonathon McKitrick wrote:
> >
> > Setting security aside for the moment, what about other issues?
> > Overall stability, speed, hardware support, administration,
> > scalability, etc.
>
> Given that the product hasn't been out for the general public for a
> month yet it's probably a bit overboard to closely examine how well it
> will do. Let's put it this way, FreeBSD 4.0 gets released on say 10
> March, at the rate we are going we would know all there is know about
> the impact of 4.0 by 2 April. Not very realistic.
>
> Back to your question though. Admin : windows needs good scripting
> ability, NT 4 definitely didn't have it. Does 2000? Don't know.
> Case in point : try adding 500 windows accounts, point and click all
> over. In the unix world you'd just script the creation go to town.
> Speed : MS has never been known to concern itself over running well
> on minimal resources. I'm sure you can make 2000 run fast, but it
> will take more hardware to do it. If that's not the case then it will
> likely be a first for MS. This goes along the same lines with
> scalability.
Well, we just installed it on what M$ state as minimum spec hardware
(P133, 64MB - although it will install with 32MB according to the box)
mainly so we would have an idea what to recommend to customers when
they ask if they can/should upgrade(?). It runs like a dog and,
immediately after booting, has already swapped out 15MB.
--
Microsoft: Where do you want to go today?
Linux: Where do you want to go tomorrow?
BSD: Are you guys coming, or what?
-Poster at LinuxWorld 2000
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