The author and many other "Enterprise Linux" writers should try working for a large company. I work for one (40k employess) and being one of the few Linux users of the lot, once a year I get to play for a few weeks with the vendor of the moment (Sun, Novell, etc.) with a desktop pilot.
We're still far away from a viable Enterprise Linux. What's missing is:
- seamless Active Directory integration (no thanks, nss_ldap and the like are not Enterprise class, winbind is better but not enough)
- seamless Active Directory integration (no thanks, nss_ldap and the like are not Enterprise class, winbind is better but not enough) - Kerberos support in cifs, cifs tools, support for Windows2003 shares (Enterprise support, not pathces or digging into obscure mailing list threads)
The Samba people are going as fast as they can, and they're doing a great job. These issues are being addressed.
- desktop lockdown (Sun JDS is getting there)
KDE now has Kiosk for this purpose. Reportedly it is already quite good, and no doubt it will improve rapidly as Novell develops their desktop Linux offerings further.
I think you're overstating things a little when you say that viable "Enterprise Linux" is still "far away". Enterprise Desktop Linux, maybe.
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We're still far away from a viable Enterprise Linux. What's missing is:
- seamless Active Directory integration (no thanks, nss_ldap and the like are not Enterprise class, winbind is better but not enough)
- Kerberos support
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- Kerberos support in cifs, cifs tools, support for Windows2003 shares (Enterprise support, not pathces or digging into obscure mailing list threads)
The Samba people are going as fast as they can, and they're doing a great job. These issues are being addressed.
- desktop lockdown (Sun JDS is getting there)
KDE now has Kiosk for this purpose. Reportedly it is already quite good, and no doubt it will improve rapidly as Novell develops their desktop Linux offerings further.
I think you're overstating things a little when you say that viable "Enterprise Linux" is still "far away". Enterprise Desktop Linux, maybe.