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Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
> Hire company charges ahead with Linux
>
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>| Kennards Hire is ready to replace Windows server with Linux at 90 branches,
>| to accompany 400 desktops already running the open source operating system.
> `----
>
> http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/soa/Hire_company_charges_ahead_with_Linux/0,139023165,339270957,00.htm?feed=rss
>
> *Yawn* What...? Another company dumps Windows?
>
> Many Linux praises in the article, e.g.:
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>| "We're finding it (Linux) very reliable," he said. "To fix an issue on
>| Linux, even as far as resetting the OS, the guys can do that very
>| easily through Linux. It's totally configurable remotely. "They can get
>| rid of an application, wipe it, without going on-site."
> `----
This is exactly and precisely the reason why the cli is so useful, and
that proper modular software design is very much the right way to go.
There /is/ a performance hit to this, as more layers are required, /but/
the gains are enormous from doing it right.
In this case, a cracking example would be dpkg for package management
in debian. It has two or three well known front-ends which are console
based, including apt (apt-get), dselect (not for the faint-hearted)
and aptitude. However, it's also possible to install directly from lynx
(using mime-types), or use a gui front-end in X, several are possible
(synaptic is one?). Or, if you want to go a step further, go the Nokia
route, where the installation of packages is entirely gui from their
front end, *but*, the back-end is still apt/dpkg.
So, it doesn't matter how you are connecting to the machine, be it through
a local gui, a remote gui (X or vnc), remote serial console (modem),
ssh over ip/ethernet/wan/lan/umts/gprs, local tty at the console or
directly off a serial port, you can /still/ use the package management
system as you need.
Flexibility provides options, and options are a /good/ thing, in that
they permit innovative thinking around business models. Why travel to
be physically located next to a machine when you can access it via the
net and achieve the same thing? Over a gprs link from a car-park, or
over a wifi link from a coffee shop, it just doesn't matter.
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| Mark Kent -- mark at ellandroad dot demon dot co dot uk |
"... freedom ... is a worship word..."
"It is our worship word too."
-- Cloud William and Kirk, "The Omega Glory", stardate unknown
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