Mike Egglestone said on Fri, Oct 03, 2003 at 10:20:25AM -0700: > I'm finding it difficult to convince them that OSX is not the way to go. > We all know the reasons why Debian is so Great, but they can't see it. > The biggest push is that the OSX server can have workgroups for accounts and > thus lock workstations so that only certain workgroups have access to certain > applications on OS 9.x machines. I'm not sure how to make Debian do that. > I love the fact the Debian has apt-get and I can quickly install the daemons > such as squid, exim, apache, samba, netatalk, dhcp,ipmasq and so many other > great things. Supposedly, OSX can run and do all this too, correct? I've had good luck with fink. (fink.sf.net). It has a ton of apps. > The only reasons I can think of that makes Debian better is that is Free, its > more stable, and its way faster. I haven't seen any uptime or speed benchmarks, so I can't comment on either Debian vs. OS X with respect to uptime or speed. I would guess that you would require a bit less downtime with Debian, since you would be able to just apt-get update && upgrade without rebooting most of the time, where OS X does require reboots after Software Update. However, those are pretty minimal. If you have performance benchmarks, please share them. > Are there any other benefits of debian that out way it from OSX? It sounds like you're trying to make a decision based on religion. OS X server is a bit pricy when you include the hardware itself; that might be a factor. On the other hand, it is somewhat easier for non-admins to do things on, and depending on your office setup, that might matter. It's really almost a business decision. My experience with netatalk used to be really good, but lately I've had trouble with it... it doesn't seem to interact well with the newer Macs. M
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