Active Directory Domain on Ubuntu

[Basil Chupin]

On 13/11/2010 18:23, Christopher Chan wrote:
> On Saturday, November 13, 2010 10:07 AM, Mark wrote:
>    
>> On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 4:28 PM, Christopher Chan
>> <christopher.chan at bradbury.edu.hk>   wrote:
>>      
>>> You have missed the point. It is not whether they have a long
>>> 'maintenance' commitment, it is whether they have any tools that make
>>> them manageable in the corporate environment. None of the Ubuntu LTS
>>> distros are with the exception of Hardy but its so called LTS means that
>>> it is not viable since that only means security updates. Who needs a
>>> dumb distro that cannot open files most of the world are using?
>>>
>>>        
>> If I missed the point, someone else (you?) missed the whole topic.
>> LTS is not (just) a commitment to long maintenance.  RHEL is used in
>> corporate environments all over the world - that's what "Enterprise
>> Linux" entails, as opposed to other RH packages. That's one of the
>> distinctions between SuSE and SLES (formerly SLED?).  They're not
>> Enterprise distributions solely because of long-term support
>> commitments - all RH and SuSE releases have those (as opposed to
>> Fedora, or Gentoo which I also know for a fact is used in some
>> enterprise situations).
>>      
> RHEL will get NEW features for example. It is not just 'long term
> security maintenance' which is what Ubuntu LTS means. Hardy has this
> outstanding bug, for example. with regards to Yahoo Messenger accounts
> for which there are bug fixes but nobody is willing to get that
> addressed. The only thing done for Hardy is security related. And forget
> getting an OpenOffice version that can handle OOXML on Hardy. It is
> probably not even on their radar.
>    

I don't understand. Why are you living in the past?

The current release of Ubuntu is Maverick, 10.10, and yet you keep still 
nattering along about some outdated version?

Get with it , man, and then you would be in a position to present an 
educated argument :-) .

It's like someone spouting forth about the merits of DOS when it is no 
longer in the picture...... :-) .

BC

PS Pax, bro.

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