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From: "Doug Sutherland" <doug@proficio.ca>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Subject: Re: Directory Services and linux
Date: Sun, 27 May 2007 19:17:53 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <001101c7a0bd$a2650120$ab00a8c0@tenstac> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070527225559.GA25303@gmx.net>

NIS is still the standard used in most unix networks, including 
Solaris where it was born, actually on the predecessor SunOS.
Sun creaited NIS+ as a successor but it never gained ground 
over NIS. You can't really go wrong with NIS, it is still the 
most widely supported naming service after DNS. 

  -- Doug


  reply	other threads:[~ UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
 OT: " Alex Snow
 ` Doug Sutherland [this message]
   ` Terry Klarich
     ` Alex Snow
 ` OT: " Terry Klarich
   ` Steve Holmes
     ` Terry Klarich

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