| Differences In Approach (IBM vs HP-UX vs SUN) |
Differences And Similarities In User Administration |
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What are the fundamental differences in approach to the design of the respective OS offerings? |
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What is the corporate approach to their UNIX offering? |
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Major Operating System components (tools, kernel facilities, management software) |
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Use of the shadow file |
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Trusted Computing Base |
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Choice of user shells etc. |
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GUI tools for user administration |
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Command-line tools for user administration |
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Workgroup policies |
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| Differences In Device Management |
Differences In Service Management |
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How are devices recognised |
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Naming conventions |
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Tools to add/install new devices |
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Dynamic device tree management |
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Devices files and directories |
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Printing services (local, remote & network printer support) |
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Internet-related processes (LAN card management, MAC addressing) |
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Networking facilities |
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Naming Services Support (DNS, NIS, LDAP etc.) |
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| Differences In File Storage |
Differences In System Admin Tools |
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Disk management (physical partitions or whole disk approach) |
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Use of memory-based file systems |
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Supported file system types |
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Logical Volume Management facilities |
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File system size limitations |
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Performing on-line backups |
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SMIT (IBM) vs SAM (HP) vs SMC (Sun) |
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GUI or TUI availability |
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Super-user privileges |
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Role-based Access Control |
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Special workgroups |
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| Sundry Topics |
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Backup Portability issues |
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Approach to Security |
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System Performance issues |
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Patch Management & Bug Fixes |
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Documentation availability |
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