From owner-freebsd-advocacy Sat Jul 3 8:30:52 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from freedom.cybertouch.org (freedom.cybertouch.org [216.183.2.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 77F5114D92; Sat, 3 Jul 1999 08:30:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from lnb@freedom.cybertouch.org) Received: from localhost (lnb@localhost) by freedom.cybertouch.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA35492; Sat, 3 Jul 1999 11:30:26 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sat, 3 Jul 1999 11:30:26 -0400 (EDT) From: Lanny Baron To: cjclark@home.com Cc: Paul Anderson , ulairi@jps.net, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG, advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: NT vs Linux vs FreeBSD In-Reply-To: <199907030108.VAA24907@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> Message-ID: City: Thorhill Province: Ontario Postal: L4J 6X4 Tel: 905-763-1900 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I must disagree with you with respect to business's and the use of NT combined with FreeBSD or with Window 9.x or MAC's. The reason is as follows. If I have a small office or even an office with 50+ workstations and happen to be in the financial industry, I would want my staff to do their work without having to spend countless hours trying to teach them FreeBSD. If they are already comfortable with MS OFFICE or whatever MAC uses ( I know nothing of MAC's) then why the need for the "pain". Face it, most people who work for organizations like banks or law firms etc; will use windows based programs for their day to day work. From the security standpoint, NT does offer ways in which a logon will only let you see what ever the sys admin has allowed for a particular user. With Win 9.x the same thing is basically do-able. However you need to know the ins and outs of the win 9.x OS and well. The other (and really good approach) way is to implement Samba. With Samba running, all machines can be forced to use the same Profiles for desktops and shares can easily be set up, allowing the System Admin to control who sees what, where and when. This also gives a boost for those that can "sell" their services to a firm and thereby become the sysadmin. As we all know, you need not send a cheque to anyone for the amount of users accessing the file server. Windows, as I have written an article about in with respect to Samba, is great. What I like best is that it really shows (and proves beyond a shadow of doubt) that FreeBSD is a fantastic OS. Going back to security for a sec. We all know how well FreeBSD works with security. There will be no contention here for dispute. The way I see it, is to get business IT department heads to implement FreeBSD. In the local papers here (Toronto, Canada) recently, there have been quite a few articles by journalists regarding linux and how "good" it is. Some of these journalists have been criticizing the Gov't here for needlessly spending money on Microsoft products when they could implement linux for print and file sharing services. In addition to FreeBSD being rock solid, it has the right to claim that it is a one distribution OS. Unlike linux which has several. Well, enough said on that point. Have a great day :-) Lanny To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message