Holger Levsen wrote: [...] > So we need a new name. ltsp-server is not a good one, because the technology > used could change again tomorrow. (In fact, since a few days these servers > _also_ allow access via remote desktop, a totally different technology.) > > So, my current proposals for a new name are: > > - GUI server > - desktop server > - console server
In reverse order: - I would rule out "console server" just because "console" is so ambiguous (anything from "text-only" to "Wii"); - "desktop server" is good - I suppose "desktop" also has the interpretation "pizza-box form-factor", but it should be obvious that this couldn't be an installer option; - and while obviously you can't call it "X server", "GUI server" is good too. I suppose the difference between "GUI" and "desktop" is that the GUI is just a software layer, while the desktop metaphor invites you to think of it as the place where your files are stored; that ambiguity seems appropriate here. > Other, better suggestions? I've got some other, mostly worse suggestions: - fat-server (too late for that one); - login-server (no, the main-server does all the authentication); - central-server (as a coverterm for centralised processing/storage, but this risks sounding more "main" than the "main-server"); - cluster-server (the whole thing being an LTSP cluster); - terminal-server (from the expansion of LTSP). LTSP is another of those L- initialisms where the package also installs perfectly happily on Debian GNU/kFreeBSD! -- JBR with qualifications in linguistics, experience as a Debian sysadmin, and probably no clue about this particular package -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-edu-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20101106121103.ga2...@xibalba.demon.co.uk