Re: [luv-talk] Likelihood and consequence of MS distributing 'windblows' as a GUI built on Unix/ Linux ? - luv-talk

14 Dec 2012

Quoting Peter Ross (Peter.Ross(a)bogen.in-berlin.de):

...
  AFAIK NetInfo has nothing to do with Sun. 
Heh, OK.  It sure felt like a mutant Sun invention, right down to the
RPC portmapper dependency. 

(I was a NeXTStep admirer back in the day, and ran the Intel port for a
while, though I never splurged on any of the very pretty black-cube
systems.)

...
  I still consider a lot of NeXT stuff as very good -
and NetInfo was
 easier to handle as other /etc/files replacements (NIS, NIS+, LDAP)
 and came with a good set of GUI tools to edit NetInfo too. 
Probably.  It's been long enough since I had to administer NIS that the
hate has faded.  ;->