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On 07/22/2013 12:07 PM, Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
Le Lun 22 juillet 2013 17:56, Stephen Gallagher a écrit :
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> On 07/22/2013 11:37 AM, Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
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>> 3. lack of clearly defined LAN infra : Windows comes with AD
>> and local network sharing, our desktop comes with facebook
>> clients. Guess which one is actually useful to produce code.
>> Linux for workgroups is a fantasy
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> I realize I'm pulling apart one specific example, but you DO
> realize that Fedora comes with FreeIPA, NFSv4 and samba, right?
> Those three components accomplish most of what you're describing
> in "AD and local network sharing". Work is being done in both
> GNOME and KDE right now to provide a better user-experience for
> enabling those shares, but the capability is there.
I do realise Fedora includes some technical bricks necessary to
provide the service. However : 1. nobody knows about them. Startups
do not have time for investigating desktop capabilities, if it's
not easy to find, deploy and use it does not exist 2. last I've
seen, the integration of the server parts was not sufficient and
required quite a lot of operator work (but it may have changed) 3.
the server parts are irrelevant if the desktop parts do not use the
out of the box with minimal operator/user work
Again, startups do not care about "the best technical infra"
(Fedora angle) or "the most robust and versatile infra" (RHEL
angle). They care about "the quickest and easiest way to get devs
to churn code".
Sure, absolutely. But that was kind of my point above: we have the
tools to do the job and we're just missing some of the user-experience
elements to pull it all together. And as for "nobody knows about
them", that may be the case in the individual end-user case, but for
the mid-level users (those who have tinkered with an "alternative" OS
before), samba and NFS are very well-known, and FreeIPA is making huge
inroads in the small-to-medium business space, especially with its
AD-interoperability capabilities.
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