[ILUG] Linux is more expensive than Windows

[bryan hunt]

Ruairi Newman wrote:

>On Tue, 2004-04-06 at 13:32, adam beecher wrote:
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>>No doubt Matthew is trying to infuriate a little more with the headline. Go
>>on lads, tear into him! After 'im! :)
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>>adam /slaps linux.ie on the back of the head and tears off on his
>>late-seventies bicycle
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>One of the big problems is that a large-scale switch from any operating
>system to any other is going to be disruptive initially, even if done
>right.  Microsoft have provided clear documentation and supported
>migration tools to facilitate migration from other platforms to Windows.
>The open source community needs to respond in kind.
>
>Though I believe we can supply all of the tools needed to migrate from
>Windows as seamlessly as any such migration can be, we still lack the
>definitive guide to migration.
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>A comprehensive guide would need to detail the major differences between
>the two platforms.  Differences in the security model, at filesystem and
>network levels, explaining how best to obtain similar group permissions
>et al would be a good start.
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>I still feel that the lack of support for access control lists is a big
>stumbling block, very few organisations moving from Windows would be
>enamoured at having to patch their kernels for ACL support, but perhaps
>this could also be dealt with by giving clear, concise & accurate
>instructions in a migration guide.
>
>Well, there's more I want to say, but I'm off to another meeting :(
>
>Later,
>
>R.
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Redhat enterprise linux comes with ACL, all you have do is change a flag 
in the fstab .. whether or not you would have
the balls to try this on a production system given the state of most of 
the supported software in this pile of crap is another matter.

--B