Re: clipping: Linux gains steam in China's OS mart
Colin Charles <[email protected]> Mon, 28 Mar 2005 21:02:27 +1000
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| Organization | ArenaTechniques.com / ByteBot.Net |
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On Mon, 2005-03-28 at 12:04 +0800, Bjørn Stabell wrote: > Very happy so far, but it's not as *nix as I'd like. Got my first > big > shock when I couldn't find my user account in /etc/passwd... It's > all > delegated to NetInfo or something. Anyways, makes sense, and > actually > wish *nix would by default delegate to an OpenLDAP server as well :) Get Mac OS X for Unix Geeks. Its actually quite a good read (have a copy sitting here that Apple once sent out ;-)) And LDAP for logins can actually be a bad idea on a large system. It just doesn't scale :( -- Colin Charles, [email protected] http://www.bytebot.net/ "First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win." -- Mohandas Gandhi _______________________________________________ blug-general list [email protected] http://list.beijinglug.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/blug-general