On Wed, 15 Oct 1997, Matthew Majka wrote: > I very new to Debian (maybe 24 hours) although I have quite > a bit of experience with SGI's and Sun's. I have a few > questions I was hoping someone could answer for me.
We'll sure try. Always glad to have a new convert :) > 1) I've seen that NFS is supported on Debian, but I haven't > seen any mention of an automounter. Is there one? We actually have two :). There is amd, which I believe supports Sun automounter maps. There is also autofs, although that requires you to be running a late 2.1.x-series kernel and takes a different kind of map file. > 2) If so, does it support NIS maps? Yes, amd at least supports NIS maps > 3) The reason we set this machine up is to become familiar > with what Linux can give us. Management wants to buy cheap > hardware (PeeCee), but we are unwilling to use the "cheap" > OS that they come with (Windoze). I'm interested in window > manager suggestions. The SGI's use a modified mwm from OSF, > so I know that's not a freebie. Is there one that will give > user's the look and feel of a commercial workstation? There are over half a dozen different window managers packaged with Debian, as well as the potential to buy CDE from RedHat for a totally commercial feel. -- Scott K. Ellis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.gate.net/~storm/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
