Re: Help, OSX vs Linux
Hey Mike,
Sounds like you are looking for some weight for your
argument that debian is the best. For some apps yes!
But in a situation with these macs you may be better
off getting a mix of OSX servers and some debian boxes
for the PCs.
I have worked with OS X server version 10.1.4 and it
was unstable as hell, had huge problems if it wansnt
running DNS or didnt have a name server on its local
network (so bad that it would lock us out of the
machine randomly). I aslo saw some it produce a stop
screen that made me appreciate how nice the shade of
blue a MS stop screen looked like.
In the end however the system did get up and running
and hasnt had any problems since. Running as a
file/web server.
OS X.2 jaguar is the latest version of the mac os.
With it you can install fink a port of apt and
dselect, with which you can install all sorts of unix
packages all compiled and configured to run under OS
X. You can also install X windows server and client to
run Xapps in their own windows along side the apple
apps (very trick).
OS X also uses the NetInfo database for much of its
authentication/configuration data. Its sort of like a
cross between the MS registry and Active Directory.
OS X is not the endallbeall of server OSs but it is a
huge jump from what OS 9 was. Consider taking a second
look at it. It may fill your needs perfectly,
specially with fink ;-)
http://fink.sourceforge.net
Aaron
--- Mike Egglestone <mike@heri.sd57.bc.ca> wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I'm a system's admin looking after several different
> sites at
> which most of them have woody servers. But some of
> the staff are
> pushing for OSX servers. The workstations range from
> PC's to Imacs.
> running all different OS's.
> 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 use netatalk currently, and use local multiple
> users on OS 9 to lock down
> the machine but its not quite as tight as how OSX
> server can do it with Mac
> Mananger.
> 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?
> The only reasons I can think of that makes Debian
> better is that is Free, its
> more stable, and its way faster.
> Are there any other benefits of debian that out way
> it from OSX?
>
> Your ideas and comments are appreciated!
>
> Thanks
> Mike
>
>
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