[TriLUG] [Spam] Re: If you had to choose: Windows vs Mac for Linux graphical VM

[Lance A. Brown via TriLUG]

FreeIPA covers a lot of the basics that AD provides without having to touch the dreaded MS ecosystem.

--[Lance]

Stephen Wiley via TriLUG wrote on 1/4/2026 9:43 AM:
> Yeah that's the thing. There are a zillion projects that could
> technically replace AD but none of them are actually *good* (and at the
> end of the day you could technically hack it with ansible and ssh certs.
> Your don't even *need* all this if you're just looking at the
> technology.)
>
> It's really almost this social problem where the UX, training pipeline,
> support etc matters as much as the actual technical artifacts. Nominally
> RedHat has IPA which is supposed to cover all this but anyone who's
> actually used IPA will argue for AD if they need to *do* anything.
>
> -- Stephen