Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on April 12, 2003 03:29 AM
In Solaris it's called JumpStart. A Solaris license costs US$100 for 100 systems.
In Redhat Linux it's called KickStart. It's free.
In FreeBSD it's called sysinstall. It's free.
The point I'm making here is that support for network installation is the norm for Unix systems. What you call "seamless roaming" does not require any special effort in Unix, and requires no replication. Filesystem sharing is something that Unix has been doing for 20 years.
None of this is a big deal. The point that you seem to be making is that you're not up to speed yet with anything outside the Microsoft monopoly. That's okay, but it's not reasonable to conclude that nothing exists if it lies outside your sphere of knowledge.
One other thing that really needs to be said. It's one thing to whip together some kind of computing environment in a few hours. It's quite another to make it secure. Beware of solutions that are so easy that any user can do them. It's probably also the case that any user can undo them.
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Re:prove to me I have a viable choice
Posted by: Anonymous Coward on April 12, 2003 03:29 AMIn Redhat Linux it's called KickStart. It's free.
In FreeBSD it's called sysinstall. It's free.
The point I'm making here is that support for network installation is the norm for Unix systems. What you call "seamless roaming" does not require any special effort in Unix, and requires no replication. Filesystem sharing is something that Unix has been doing for 20 years.
None of this is a big deal. The point that you seem to be making is that you're not up to speed yet with anything outside the Microsoft monopoly. That's okay, but it's not reasonable to conclude that nothing exists if it lies outside your sphere of knowledge.
One other thing that really needs to be said. It's one thing to whip together some kind of computing environment in a few hours. It's quite another to make it secure. Beware of solutions that are so easy that any user can do them. It's probably also the case that any user can undo them.
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