Jason Earl wrote:
>
> Actually Linux is used as a file server for PCs (by people who know
> about it). Last I checked Samba was reporting significant performance
> improvements over NT on the same hardware (not that this should come
> as any surprise).
Indeed; I run a small, underfunded computer lab here at school, and
I've set up Windows 95 on a bunch of 486 and Pentium workstations.
All of them access the Internet, and receive file serving and printer
services from a Pentium/60 (48MB RAM) running RedHat 5, Samba, and
Netatalk (for our few Macintoshes). Every workstation believes it's
printing to an Apple LaserWriter Pro 600 (it's actually a Hewlett
Packard 5L, but with RedHat's printtool and Ghostscript...) and we
get outstanding print quality and incredibly good performance.
> If what you need is file and print serving, I think that you will find
> that Linux is easy to set up, fast, stable, and extremely cost
> effective.
Ditto that from above. Especially as you can get the RedHat CD for
$1.49 (or, like I did, as part of the ApplixWare package that I
bought to run on my Slackware system - I'm now a RedHat convert).
We _never_ reboot the RedHat server I discussed above; we leave it
run for months at a time (even when it was running Slackware 3.1)
and it never even hiccups. Don't get me started on the Win95
workstations...
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