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Linux vs Windows a real life comparison
dmcfarland:
Samba is faster than Windows Server 2003.:p
dmcfarland:
My mistakes. Thanks for the info. :thumbup:
--- Quote from: piratePenguin ---Windows Server 2003 (A.K.A. Windows 2003)
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toadlife:
--- Quote from: dmcfarland ---Things began to change as the company began to expand, and began hiring more people. They hired a CIO who wanted to switch everything over to NT.
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Did he have a reason for this switch?
--- Quote from: dmcfarland --- The company ended up swithching over to NT and then the problems began. The PDC crashed every other day of the week, the exchange server was on the same computer as the PDC, so exchange went to hell when the PDC crashed as it did often.
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Whoops! There was your problem! You don't put exchange on a domain controller. You can do just about anything else on a domain controller - file/print/database, but putting exchange on it is just asking for trouble. Judging by this one big no-no and the PDC dying like it did, it sounds like the dudes who set up your NT domain didn't know what the fuck they were doing.
--- Quote from: dmcfarland --- My buddie there had a contest to see what was faster NT or Linux. The NT technician (Wannabe,) used copy from his workstation and my buddie used SSH on his. Needless to say SSH was by far faster.
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Faster at what?
Regardless, if linux was running everything fine, the switch to NT seems needless. I've heard similar stories about new IT heads coming into perfectly operational WIndows shops and switching everything to linux with disasterous results.
If it aint broke - DONT FIX IT!
H_TeXMeX_H:
--- Quote from: toadlife ---Regardless, if linux was running everything fine, the switch to NT seems needless. I've heard similar stories about new IT heads coming into perfectly operational WIndows shops and switching everything to linux with disasterous results.
If it aint broke - DONT FIX IT!
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IT heads trained in what ? Winblow$ I bet ... Winblow$ is broke, and it can't be fixed ... except with a sledgehammer.
dmcfarland:
I didn't push for the switch over to M$. I am some of my co-workers were against it and we were vocal about our opposition. The idiot (CIO) argued that Windows had better technical support and that Linux didn't because he argued Linux was free. He didnt understand that Linux has a worldwide support base that wasnt limited to the RedHat corp. Not to mention the idiot (CIO) didnt listen to us.
Just for the record I would never advocate putting exchange on the same computer as the PDC. Thats suicide. Thats suicide . Samba was faster than Window$ when it came to printing, loging in etc. They erased my Samba machine after I quit, and installed NT on it. My Samba server went down one time, and thats when the power supply blew during a blackout. I dont know how it happened. I had it hooked it to an UPS. Needless to say, I swapped the drives into an idenical piece of hardware and fired up without any problems.
I hate NT. I hate Window$ 2000, 2003, and the rest of the windows family. My first love was netware and will always be a favorite. I used DOS and Xtree.net and things were good. I was drug kicking and screaming to Windows 3.1. I went reluctantly to 95, 98, and ME.
I love Linux.
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