Hey Mike, Sounds like you are looking for some weight for your argument that debian is the best. For some apps yes! But in a situation with these macs you may be better off getting a mix of OSX servers and some debian boxes for the PCs.
I have worked with OS X server version 10.1.4 and it was unstable as hell, had huge problems if it wansnt running DNS or didnt have a name server on its local network (so bad that it would lock us out of the machine randomly). I aslo saw some it produce a stop screen that made me appreciate how nice the shade of blue a MS stop screen looked like. In the end however the system did get up and running and hasnt had any problems since. Running as a file/web server. OS X.2 jaguar is the latest version of the mac os. With it you can install fink a port of apt and dselect, with which you can install all sorts of unix packages all compiled and configured to run under OS X. You can also install X windows server and client to run Xapps in their own windows along side the apple apps (very trick). OS X also uses the NetInfo database for much of its authentication/configuration data. Its sort of like a cross between the MS registry and Active Directory. OS X is not the endallbeall of server OSs but it is a huge jump from what OS 9 was. Consider taking a second look at it. It may fill your needs perfectly, specially with fink ;-) http://fink.sourceforge.net Aaron --- Mike Egglestone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi All, > > I'm a system's admin looking after several different > sites at > which most of them have woody servers. But some of > the staff are > pushing for OSX servers. The workstations range from > PC's to Imacs. > running all different OS's. > I'm finding it difficult to convince them that OSX > is not the way to go. > We all know the reasons why Debian is so Great, but > they can't see it. > The biggest push is that the OSX server can have > workgroups for accounts and > thus lock workstations so that only certain > workgroups have access to certain > applications on OS 9.x machines. > I use netatalk currently, and use local multiple > users on OS 9 to lock down > the machine but its not quite as tight as how OSX > server can do it with Mac > Mananger. > I love the fact the Debian has apt-get and I can > quickly install the daemons > such as squid, exim, apache, samba, netatalk, > dhcp,ipmasq and so many other > great things. Supposedly, OSX can run and do all > this too, correct? > The only reasons I can think of that makes Debian > better is that is Free, its > more stable, and its way faster. > Are there any other benefits of debian that out way > it from OSX? > > Your ideas and comments are appreciated! > > Thanks > Mike > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------- > This mail sent through IMP: http://horde.org/imp/ > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo! Shopping - with improved product search http://shopping.yahoo.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
