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Is there anything that Xserve does that would be difficult to do on a Linux box? Could they, perhaps, lend assistance to the netatalk project to assure present
by teilo 16y ago
Is there anything that Xserve does that would be difficult to do on a Linux box? Could they, perhaps, lend assistance to the netatalk project to assure present and future compatibility with the AFP protocol? Same for Bonjour? And the open-source HFS+ driver?
- zdw 16y agoAll of what you mention already exists - MDNS is quite common, Linux can read/write HFS+, and netatalk supports the current versions of AFP. OS X Server is basically a custom set of packages over OS X client that provide the various server functionalities, and tweak the kernel for server use. What Linux and most other open source products lack is the smooth integration of all those server bits - in most cases the biggest directory (LDAP) integration by default. While you can do that integration on your own, it takes much more effort.
- teilo 16y agoYes, I know it already exists. I run them all at my company. But these projects are often playing catchup to the latest protocol changes. Thus my question.