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For all of you youngsters out there, the Internet has always been
omnipresent, computers are something you carry in your pocket, the Unix
wars are about as relevant as the War of 1812, and the term “NIS” doesn’t
ring a bell. But, for a certain class of Unix old-timer, NIS has a distinct
place in history — and, perhaps, in still-deployed systems. So the
suggestion that Fedora might drop support for NIS has proved to be a bit of
a wakeup call for some.