“We are excited about the Likewise Open project and the solutions that it will provide Canonical's enterprise customers and other major deployments of Ubuntu. Likewise Open allows us to provide end users of the Ubuntu operating system the ability to join their systems to Microsoft Active Directory for user authentication. We look forward to the debut of Likewise Open in the April release of Ubuntu 8.04 LTS (Long Term Support).”
- Mark Shuttleworth, founder of the Ubuntu project
Canonical’s Ubuntu 8.04 offers easy integration with Active Directory environments for the first time, thanks to a new software package called Likewise Open. Likewise Open utility makes it rather easy to integrate Ubuntu Linux clients into an Active Directory authentication scheme, and the addition of new installation options for Ubuntu has lowered the bar for trying out the system on machines running Windows.
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