[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Yep, several people I know who use ghost for mass deployment of NT and
other DOS family systems swear by it and tell me that they haven't
found any application "magic" numbers it couldn't handle (or that the
ghost development team couldn't make handle within a few days of
reporting a problem).

MonMotha> However, on UNIX, I can't think of anything a specialized
MonMotha> program would offer over dd and netcat :)

Maybe it just offers a degree of branding "security" for the novice
user and perhaps a little cleverness at figuring out things like the
blocksizes.

                                            Bruce

Perhaps my understanding of these tools is inaccurate, but I thought that nothing Open Source came close to the capabilities of tools like Ghost. For example, we have nothing like the multicasting features. None of our tools are nearly as polished either.


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