Re: Apple?

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From: Radaelli A
Date: Fri, 04 Aug 1995 20:17

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In article <davidc-0108951844310001@mac30.arts.uwa.edu.au> davidc@cs.uwa.edu.au (David Cake) writes:
      Which exactly illustrates the problem with Unix. Most of the vaunted
   power and configuarability is available only to people with a very large
   amount of time and knowledge (usually someone that does nothing but Unix
   system adminstrate). Which makes it a very expensive solution. A Mac might
   not be as powerful as a Unix box, but you can do all the system
   administration for a dozen Macs (including system updates, retuning,
   networking... the whole lot) in well and truly less than an afternoon a
   week. And that is presuming that your users are often installing new
   stuff. But a Unix system with a dozen excitable users (that keep wanting
   new stuff all the time) will keep a sys admin run of their feet. 
Ever tried to install software from the net?? You just install 1 time UNIX, 
you export some root omunt-point, and all the other machines can boot without 
any problem (almost ;() Perhaps NFS is not really fast, but it is easy!!!


Alessio
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