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Re: Linux and Windows Under Pressure
by Michal on Tuesday May 30, @09:38AM
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| Re-created without edits with permission from private correspondence:
>From your article on www.LinuxMedNews.org:
> An important point in Windows favor was its 'Network Neighborhood'
> desktop program. This was superior to RedHat Linux...
Actually it is not if you will try to remember for the moment that
"Red Hat" is far from synonymous with Linux. None of distributions
includes, or can include, every single utility for everybody (probably
SuSE goes furthest in the "kitchen sink" direction and you should use
that one if you are so inclined).
There exist programs for Linux which are actually superior to the often
broken and misleading 'Network Neighborhood' from Windows. Last time I
played with 'gnomba', it was a while ago, it would not only show
graphically other SMB "shares" on the network, and will open them
automatically in a file browser like mc, but also - optionally - will
mount them using 'smbfs' file system so they may look as an integral
part of a the whole setup under Linux. 'gnomba' works using Gnome
libraries (you do not have to run the whole Gnome to use it); recently I
have seen some annoucements for 'komba' which is a similar thing but
working with libraries from KDE. I would not be surprised if there are
other analogous around.
This is a usual story - with more power of Linux you also have more
responsibilities; even if they are limited to checking out, and not
creating from scratch or adjusting, things which YOU may need. If you
think that this is too much for you personally then hire somebody to do
that (you tinker with your vehicle yourself or you leave that to
qualified mechanics?) but nothing follows from that that some particular
distribution does not provide every single piece you would like to have.
Best regards,
Michal
michal@harddata.com
p.s. I have no idea if 'gnomba', or 'komba', is included in the current
SuSE set. It really does not matter. Also Red Hat has separate
"Power Tools" additions which, once again, have many things not included
in a main distribution and, again once again, this is still not
"everything". :-) |
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