[Sussex] LINUX takes on Xserve

[Steve Dobson]

Hi Neil

On 10 January 2003 at 10:59 Neil Ford wrote:
> > It has lagged with SSH .. but not that far behind.  How many Linux 
> > systems really run the latest version?
> 
> If it's the main purpose of the server (which was the original poster's 
> point), then I would have said that keeping the machine patched is very 
> important. Yes, the vast majority of Linux systems probably aren't up 
> to date, but then hopefully most of them aren't sitting as front line 
> security boxes.

A very, very good point, and please keep this in mind.

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> OS X is indeed different. Whether or not the user experience is poorer 
> is very much a personal thing. I like having a far more stable platform 
> with proper memory management and the flexibility having unix at it's 
> core provides.

But the main point of this system (as you reminded us) is as a SSH access
point to the outside world.  It needs to SSH patched to the hilt, which I
though was the main point here.

Behind the firewall, there are many other factors that come into play.  If
your running a lot of Macs then a Mac server make a lot of sense for 
the normal reasons of easy of configure and support from Apple.

Steve