Category: Technology

  • What Linux Needs To Learn From Windows

    My company (Likewise Software) develops software for UNIX, Linux and Mac OS X. Our code is system-level, infrastructure, software. It interacts with the authentication components in the OS in order to allow users to login to these non-Windows systems using their Microsoft Active Directory credentials. By supporting single username/password and single sign-on and by supporting Windows-style “group policy” on non-Windows systems we…