[COMP] Re: e-smith, inc. - index

> If you want a nice easy Linux installation, get RedHat. 
> StormLinux (Corel) looks promising, at least that's what
> I've heard (never installed it myself).

StormLinux is done by Corel?

> As far as sharing files, you are going to do light years
> better with a linux box.  Not only was Linux designed from 
> the ground up to be a multi-user, time-sharing system, 
> it doesn't force you into a GUI that salivates at the 
> sight of CPU ticks.  
> 
> Linux will gladly serve to windows clients while looking
> exactly like an NT box, it will even happily tell clients
> that it is running NT, when asked.  

Ya.. Samba has got to be the best implementation of SMB sharing available.  And
if you have to use windows machines, it's the best way of swapping files
around.  Samba's also a lot faster than NT in most respects (and certainly in
anything the average user or business would encounter).  It's also extremely
reliable: I've never had any sort of issue with it.  The down side, as with
most things Linux, is its configuration: you have to edit smb.conf to modify
shares and whatnot.  But that's really not a *bad* thing at all... :)

John



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