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PS: I don't know much about the author except to say that his About Me section is terribly written piece for any stranger visiting his site.
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Apart from the fact you had to reboot to change just about anything and there was no USB support, it wasn't bad for the era. Stable where MacOS at the time was anything but, with the no-nonsense Windows 95 theming. As far as a desktop operating system, it was a pretty good package. You didn't have the command-line tooling of Linux, but at least you could install it on your computer without having to dive into X confi…
Pretty sure Win2k did have USB support, though you may have needed to install a SP.
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I hope to see a day when the perception of modern Linux environments will change. Ubuntu for example is more than capable of being used in a business environment.
You can use anything in an enterprise if you have infinite budgets and time. Ubuntu is easily the furthest any Linux vendor has come at producing a workable client, but there is still a long way to go. Right now managing Ubuntu centrally is painful - I mean having it hook into Kerberos is easy enough but that only gives you control over users and remote files, you still have little control or visibility over the clie…
I think Canonical offers a service for this.
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You can use anything in an enterprise if you have infinite budgets and time. Ubuntu is easily the furthest any Linux vendor has come at producing a workable client, but there is still a long way to go. Right now managing Ubuntu centrally is painful - I mean having it hook into Kerberos is easy enough but that only gives you control over users and remote files, you still have little control or visibility over the clie…
Care to explain? I think Canonical offers a service for this.
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Care to explain? I think Canonical offers a service for this.
You want me to explain away your vague hand waving?
Building a remote management solution that can mix the functionality of Active Directory and LDAP with Chef is one of the startup ideas I've been pondering lately.