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by vessenes
164 days ago
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Samba was arguably the way Linux snuck into corporations in the late 90s. Microsoft’s server offerings were truly terrible in that era, compared to getting a very functional Unix-a-like for free out of commodity hardware. Terrible and expensive. The issue was, you needed to be able to do group file sharing to windows desktops, full stop. IT teams wanted Linux, bad, for nerd and quality of life reasons. They also wanted Apache, not IIS. As Samba stabilized, Linux boxen quietly started appearing without notice or fanfare, and never left. |
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