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                                                               Unit 6 Assignment                                                              

                                                                 Steven Barnhart

Kaplan University

IT331-01: Technology Infrastructure

Susan Ferebee

December 15, 2013

Part 1

Create a table to compare Novell, Windows, Mac, UNIX, and Linux server operating systems. You should identify the most recent server operating system for each to consider. For Linux and UNIX which have multiple variants, you may choose one current server variant. Include practical considerations such as cost as well as functional considerations.

Server OS

CPU architecture

Application programming interface

GUI

File system supported

Firewall

Encrypted file systems

Package management

Novell Netware

X86

Novell propriety NDS

Yes

NSS, NWFS, FAT, NFS, AFP, UDF, CIFS, ISO 9660

IPFLT.NLM

Yes

NWCONFIG.NLM, RPM, X-Windows-based GUI installer

Windows Server 2008 R2

x86, x86-64, IA-64

.Net, windows API

Yes

NTFS, FAT, Ext2, Ext3, ISO 9660, UDF

Windows Firewall,IPSec TCP\IP Filtering

NTFS only

MSI, custom installers

Mac OS X Server 10.6

PPC, x86

Carbon, Cocoa, BSD/POSIX, X11 (since 10.3)

Yes

HFS+ (default), HFS, UFS, AFP, ISO 9660, FAT, UDF, NFS, SMBFS, NTFS (read only), FTP, WebDAV

ipfw

Yes

Mac OSX Installer

Unix : Solaris 10

x86, x86-64, SPARC

SysV, POSIX

Yes

UFS, ZFS, ext2, FAT, ISO 9660, UDF, NFS, some others

IPFilter

NA

SysV packages (pkgadd)

Linux: Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server

x86, x86-64, PPC, SPARC, Alpha, others

POSIX, multiple API of different distributors

Yes

EXT2, EXT3, EXT4, ReiserFS, FAT, ISO 9660, UDF, NFS, JFS, and others

RHEL firewall with iptables

Yes

RPM, DEB