[NTLUG:Discuss] to sum it up...things have come full circle.
Michael H. Collins
mhtexcollins at austin.rr.com
Fri May 11 10:36:22 CDT 2001
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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