I for one would be very interested in seeing more details about what you are doing and perhaps something more from gentoo in this regard (docs or some software support, similar to gentools). Currently, my office uses w2k for workstations and we are hoping to move to Linux as our standard workstation in a couple of years. We are a very conservative organization when it comes to our workstations, not a lot of technical expertise outside of the small IT group and MS fees are becoming too much of an liability. Having an established way to admin this setup (similar to what you are doing, pushing stuff to the clients) and docs for managing a lot of clients (~30-40, a lot to me anyway) would help us use gentoo as our solution instead of something like RedHat or SuSE.
Thanks for the work you've done already in documenting what you've done, just knowing that someone else is thinking of the same problems and finding gentoo based solutions gives me at least a little more confidence in being able to admin and control more than a handful of servers... Lloyd On Tue, 18 Mar 2003 00:48:32 +0100 Andrea Barisani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, Mar 15, 2003 at 07:12:06PM +0000, Louis C. Candell wrote: > > Why dont you change this to XML format and submit it to Gentoo > > Documentation or ask them if this would be OK to submit to the Docs > > section? > > Weel, I'll be happy to do it :). Let's see if there's enough interest about > this on the mailing list, I can provide more details, extended scripts and > procedures if so. > > Is there anyone involved with Gentoo Documentation out there ;). > > Bye > > > > > Andrea Barisani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > Hi to all! > > > > > > After having migrated from RedHat Linux to Gentoo on my network (35 hosts + 4 > > > servers, approx 300 users) I would like to share and discuss my experiences > > > in handling multiple Gentoo systems installations. This is nothing special > > > for all the sysadmin out there, however I hope to stimulate discussion and > > > hear how you manage such installations. > > > > > > - Scenario > > > > > > 35 client hosts used by our students handled by a central server, three > > > different architectures: k6 (400 Mhz), p1 (200 Mhz), p4 (1,7 Ghz). > > > > > > - Primary objectives > > > > > > 1) have a centralized control of all clients installation and administration > > > 2) find a proper way to optimize the installation on slow machines (p1 and k6) > > > 3) give the users always the (almost) latest versions of all packages > > > > > > Of course Gentoo was the answer :) and since it performs so well on our servers > > > we have decided to test it and eventually migrate all clients. (with Gentoo > > > performance on slow hardware has _really_ improved) > > > > > -- > ------------------------------------------------------------ > INFIS Network Administrator & Security Officer .*. > Department of Physics - University of Trieste /V\ > [EMAIL PROTECTED] - PGP Key 0x8E21FE82 (/ \) > ---------------------------------------------------- ( ) > "How would you know I'm mad?" said Alice. ^^-^^ > "You must be,'said the Cat,'or you wouldn't have come here." > ------------------------------------------------------------ > > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
