Quoting Kevin Anderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Just remember that Gentoo takes longer to install than a binary distro. > > How is that relevant? Comparing my Linux server, and my Windows server > (from memory, I don't have any anymore). Windows was faster.
It's very relevent. You are comparing a binary install of Windows to a source install of Gentoo. A fair comparison would be of Red Hat and Windows or Gentoo and getting a job as an MS developer so you can compile Windows from source. Of course Windows is going to install faster when you do an unfair comparison. > Samba needs an upgrade before it can be installed. Binary Distros are old, > and Compile-on-the-fly need to be DLed and Compiled. Windows has no such > need. Same with Email, Bind, Apache, etc. Closed source doesn't allow > that > kind of tuning, so it simply doesn't happen. Get the latest distro. and upgrade to it's latest packages. Installing packages that just came out yesterday can be very risky for a production server. Use the tested software that comes with your distro. even if it is a month or two old. What are you going to recompile every time a package comes out with a new version? That would be a full time job in itself. > How much configuration needs to be done to get Samba running as a PDC? > What > about Windows? Windows IS faster at some things. Of course Windows is faster at some things. Especially with Samba since the SMB protocol is native to Windows. > Ummm, connected to the box, maybe. But not network printers. I'm not > saying it's hard, I'm just saying that it takes longer on Linux than on > legacy. Yes it takes longer to setup network printers, but things like this just keep getting easier in Linux. It was a pain in the ass two years ago, but it's not so bad anymore. Just think what it will be like in two more years ;-) Jesse
