Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on June 03, 2002 11:51 PM
Consistency! If I've got an old alpha server, a few Intel Linux boxes, and an RS/6000, and a Sun Sparc, I'm going to prefer to support one OS! Add to that the ability to share files with windows workstations with samba and you have a much simpler environment to support. All the required security patches and upgrades will be more or less the same for all of them and I'll generally get them from the same vendor or download them with a brower. A couple of ssh and rpm commands later and I'm done. It's great to have consistent commands, that use the same switches and all files located in the same place.
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Posted by: Anonymous Coward on June 03, 2002 11:51 PMAdd to that the ability to share files with windows workstations with samba and you have a much simpler environment to support. All the required security patches and upgrades will be more or less the same for all of them and I'll generally get them from the same vendor or download them with a brower. A couple of ssh and rpm commands later and I'm done. It's great to have consistent commands, that use the same switches and all files located in the same place.
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