He meant installing/getting it running, I believe. Kev. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Trevor Lauder" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, December 02, 2002 11:50 AM Subject: Re: Re: (clug-talk) Linux Work
> Umm, smb is faster on windows? I don't know where you got that from, but > it's completely false. smb is not native to windows, it's hacked into it. > That's like saying tcp/ip is native to windows, windows tcp/ip stack came > from BSD. smb is not a microsoft protocol, it came from IBM originaly. > Linux far out performs Windows with Samba file/print sharing. Samba on > MAC OS X would probably out perferm windows too however it wouldn't be a > fair comparison there because you can't use the exact same hardware for > both servers (MAC harware vs intel) > > > 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 > > > > >
