Subject: Re: [netatalk-admins] Substitute Linux by MacOS???
From: Oliver Wrede (owrede@ds.fh-koeln.de)
Date: Sun Feb 08 1998 - 17:45:22 EST
At 14:24 08.02.98 -0800, Marc Matteo wrote:
>> We want to substitute a Linux box by an MacOS-Server!
>
>Good God, man, why?!?!?
>
>I mean I'm a Mac fan and all but the MacOS just is not worth a damn as a
>server OS. Yeah, you can do all the things you mentioned but you can do
>them all cheaper, faster and more stable on a UNIX/Linux box.
I know that. I am supporting the usage of Linux even in Mac-enviroments
for server tasks. Problem is, that I need definitive "Don't do that!"
from experienced admins to convince people from my department to stay
on Linux and spent more time in learning to administer it.
Currently the discussion is, saying "MacOS does all we need!", but I
think they're wrong in that point -- especially, because we're going
to have >400 Users working on e-Mail every day.
We have a very small PC (P90,32MB RAM,1.5GB drive) doing this job
perfectly for more than two years now. My personal experience is that
Linux performed extermly well -- but for most people from the Mac
area the interface is a problem. They simply do not want to get
into it.
I think the reliability counts more than the interface for a server,
but my friends here fear to lose control over the services if no
UNIX guy is around to fix it if something is broken.
On the other hand I have the feeling, that doing all we need on
MacOS (see my last mail) we will have more things broken, than we
can fix. But I need confirmation on that - because I do not have
any practical experience with MacOS as server for our dimension (see
my last mail as well).
Oliver
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