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Migrating from NT4 to Linux
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| Thought some of you may be interested in my experience.
I've been toying with the idea of switching the main server at work from NT4 to *nix ever since I started at my current job this summer. After putting out all (or at least most) of the fires, I installed FreeBSD and tried setting it up. As I found out, while FreeBSD may excel as a web server it doesn't do much better then Linux on the LAN level, and is much more complicated to configure.
Shortly afterwards I decided to try out the latest version of Mandrake (7.2) at home and was very impressed with it. The hardware support was greatly improved, even over 7.1. A lot of the configuration that has to be done with a text editor in FreeBSD can be done with a GUI in Mandrake. This is especially helpful when setting up Samba. Since then I've setup Mandrake at work, configuring Samba to act as a PDC.
As far as performance goes it takes a little longer to login and write files, but reading is considerably faster then NT on an almost identical PC. Most importantly, the Linux server hasn't crashed which is more then I can say for the NT server.
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Matt
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| How was the installation and configuration? I hear that that is usually the most trying part of most Linux distros. | |
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| Different distros vary in difficulty of installation. Mandrake and FreeBSD are both very easy to install (about the same difficulty of NT) while OpenBSD actually requires you to think. The only part I can see a *nix newbie having trouble with is the partition setup, but there's an auto-alocate feature in both Mandrake and FreeBSD that can do it for you.
To configure Mandrake you don't really have to know much about Linux, just know your networking fundamentals and read some of the tutorials that are out there. To configure the BSD variants you have to know about the OS.
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Matt
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