Lanman wrote:
Lanman,I Gotta agree with Mark on this one! It's AMD or nothing. Every single sytem I have and every system I've sold has been armed with AMD, and I've had absolutely no disappointments. Period. As a matter of actual fact, my dual Athlon MP based servers have consistently out-performed IBM X-Series servers! Don't take it from me. Take it from the chief Kernel Guru at MandrakeSoft. He personally tested mine against an Intel-based IBM X-Server. The 32 hour test was run at maximum kernel load, and the IBM server crashed 6 - count'em, 6 times during the test, while mine came back for more. It exceeded max load by 4 percent for 3 hours before coughing up a hairball,(Kinda proud of that one!), and that was AFTER the test was complete.Nya Nya Na Na Na ! Intel Pooh! Yuck! Ptewey! Intel, you got there first, but AMD had a chance to learn from your mistakes! Flamers can now start screamin' all you want, but this isn't opinion, this is fact. Mark? You Da Man! Lanman Question; How many Microsoft Engineers does it take to set up a stable print server? Answer: None! They don't know Linux!
Have you ever experienced the joys of a Novell print server? and I'm not being facecious here either. Mind you now, I'm taking into consideration the fact that user setup has a lot to do with the stability or lack there of for the Linux printserver, but the native support when comparing the Linux server to the Novell server, at least for the present is astonishingly different.
That being said, all things being equal, if I had to bet my paycheck on the print server I'd have to use the Novell server. Two reasons:
1. I personally don't yet feel I have enough experience with serving
printers on a Linux platform. I have/am working with both
2. I've experienced day-to-day dependability of the Novell print
server in it's native environment.
This does make me curious though. Do you know if there is a way to server printers from a Linux machine apart from doing it with Samba?
Mark
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