Re: Do all versions of Linux come with file server ?
From: Ian J Cottee (ian_at_cottee.org)
Date: 10/23/03
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Date: 23 Oct 2003 09:09:33 +0900
Keith Clark <clarkphotography@hotmail.com> writes:
> There's too much epmasis in this and other topics about "does Linux COME
> WITH prorgam XYZ".
>
> RedHat does come with Samaba. But even if it doesn't it's free software,
> go and download it, it's only 20 MB or so.
>
> The same goes for a lot of useful Linux apps that may or may not "come
> with" a distro. If it doesn't "come with it" and you want it, go get it.
>
> Like Kino, which is an awesome video editor for Linux. It doesn't "come
> with" RedHat but a simple Google search will take you to it.
I don't disagree with you but it's very easy to end up with the Linux
equivalent of DLL hell. In the Linux case you end up with a machine
with a base install, some RPMs downloaded from various sites and
finally some source code installs.
Install Samba from source and you then have to mentally ensure you
keep an eye out for security updates etc. And if you upgrade your
system it won't be picked up cleanly (with possibly messy results). If
you have a number of servers - all with different requirements this
rapidly becomes problematic. In such cases I can see that choosing
distributions which come with all the products you need at the base
level to be very beneficial.
-- Ian J Cottee Nagoya, Japan
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