[KLUG Members] Re: KCC Networking Presentation

[Bryan J. Smith]

Adam Williams wrote:
> Yes, this was a three session series.
> 1. What is Linux, Open Source, GPL, etc...? And TCO issues.
> 2. Open Source on the network, infrastructure/server side
> 3. Open Source on the desktop

Looked very good to me.  The overall approach, structure and
organization was superb -- especially for your target audience.

About the only thing I would have added was maybe a dedicated slide
mentioning the various UNIX-native, or UNIX-preferred network
filesystems -- e.g., NFS (including failover versions like Mission
Critical Linux's), AFS/CODA, and some of the failover/clustering
variants, etc...  I did see your one-entry regarding NFS on one of
the late slides, and felt it was a bit "out-of-porportion" compared
to the directory and SMB discussions.

But I understand that the presentation was geared more towards the
non-UNIX familiar (e.g., Windows sysadmins).  Over the years, I've
just run into a number of supposed "Linux sysadmins" who've never
heard of NFS (let alone AFS), and complain about Samba not being
easy to use between Linux boxen (not realizing SMB wasn't designed
for UNIX-to-UNIX file sharing).

-- Bryan

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