Re: FW: OT: Integrating Directory Services for Linux

From: Albert D. Cahalan (acahalan@cs.uml.edu)
Date: Tue Sep 11 2001 - 02:41:05 EST


> 3.) To the idea of a "linux-registry":
> I do not like this, UNIX lives now 30 years with /etc and human-readable
> configfiles and without a "database", and i think its a good compromise

1. NeXT, nextstep, openstep, Darwin, MacOS X (netinfo)
2. AIX
3. SuSE (YaST junk, etc.)

Note: not saying if it is good or bad, just that it is.

Reiserfs seems to be headed toward handling this sort of thing.
Head over to www.namesys.com sometime and check out the weird ideas.

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