[Samba] Novell vs Linux.

[Ed Kasky]

At 12:35 PM Monday, 9/16/2002, Trevor Fraser wrote -=>
>experience.  I was approached with the question of why should a company
>consider changing from Novel to Linux, but due to the fact of knowing little
>about Novel, I could only mention the pros of Linux, and therefore an
>incomplete answer.  I would appreciate brief advantages of Linux over Novel.


I have a somewhat heterogeneous environment here and utilize both.  I have 
no windows servers.

I use my linux box as an email server, a list server, an ftp server.  I got 
my CNE before I started to learn linux and as a result,  we use one Novel 
machine as a firewall and web cache with BorderManager.  One other serves 
as the main file and print server.

As I see it, the one major advantage for us with Novell is NDS.  We use it 
fairly extensively to handle rights to network resources.

Ed Kasky
Los Angeles, CA
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