[NTLUG:Discuss] to sum it up...things have come full circle.

[Michael H. Collins]

Have you been to the ltsp site?  What fun.  Yes I have taken control of 
my users desktops.
It makes life so much easier.


Richard Geoffrion wrote:

> ok.. diskless workstations running off a central computer and all of this in
> a *nix environment.  We've some full circle. We went from the 'centralized'
> main frame days to the distributed PC days and now we are rapidly heading
> back towards those centralized days again. I can't say that I'm upset.
> Things have gotten a bit out of hand.  It will be nice for network
> administrators to be able to have back the control over the desktop.  Of
> course there have been products out there to help manage the distributed
> network, (like NetWare's Zenworks) but  I can see that products like Windows
> based Citrix/Term. Serv. and Linux based Netraverse (
> http://www.netraverse.com/products/standard/features.php ) are bringing
> everything back to the server.
> 
> I suppose I'm going to have to brush up on diskless workstations,  XWindows,
> and Netraverse.  You know, if a cookie-cutter install of a Linux server all
> pre-configured was made, then the hard drive could be replicated and VOILA!
> A turnkey solution that leveridges the customers current hardware whatever
> it may be.

Haha.

Its been done.

http://www.riverdale.k12.or.us/linux/k12ltsp.html


> 
> Oh the endless possibilities. Now all I have to do is decide to move away
> from Slackware and get into a distro that is updated more often.  It seems
> I'm not up to upgrading my kernel AND all the module stuff AND the GCC
> libraries...etc.  Slackware is just so slow to update.  *sigh* I did so like
> the BSD style init scripts.
> 


Nobody has gotten Slak to work with ltsp that I know of.


> Have I told you guys lately how educational this discussion group is for me?
> Thanks
> 
> -Richard
> 
> PS, as I spell check this message I added Linux to the dictionary.  Dang MS
> and their failure to include THAT technical term.. Geesh!
> 
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