Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 21 Jan 1999 21:11:51 -0500 (EST) | From | Gregory Maxwell <> | Subject | Re: *** Draft 7 - Press Release *** |
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On Thu, 21 Jan 1999, Kyle R. Rose wrote: [snip] > * With compatibility for BSD and Windows NT filesystems, Linux 2.2 helps > you leverage your existing UNIX and NT data today. SAMBA > <http://www.samba.org> enables NT sharing from Linux. Linux 2.2 provides you > with a strong upgrade path from your present Windows NT systems tomorrow. > > Though I would clear up the SAMBA bit. Maybe, "SAMBA...allows Linux servers to > masquerade as NT servers to other Windows clients" or something like that. Every > time I heard samba described by someone at work, that is the way they would > describe it.
That somehow makes it sound like it's slow at doing NT 'emulation'. Fact is, Linux + Samba is faster then NT. There are a couple of papers that show it. We need to let people know this: Linux is a better NT server then NT server.
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