On 26 Jan 2002 at 14:33, Philip S Tellis wrote: > You may also want an application server - a powerful machine (Dual > processor Pentium III or IV, with plenty of RAM). This server would run > all applications - StarOffice, etc. that people would use. The > application would run on the app server, and desktop would be exported > to each person's terminal. This would enable you to run very > lightweight clients - possibly even dumb terminals.
I suggest mandrake for desktop. Secondly if you configure ldap on application server and do central authentication, you can have single logon where user can run apps locally as well as from application server. This will allow proper use of resources. Rather than having 128MB RAM on each machine and leave half of it unused, you can put a gig on server and have it 80% used.. And staroffice will be especially faster on such a machine due to caching.. You can create links/network mounts where users mail will be on individual machines in ~ but all the files will be centrally placed. etc.etc.. > I'd suggest gnome over kde because there are so many ways to make it > look good. When you're trying to convince someone that his desktop is > easy to use, having a good looking desktop immediately takes away that > initial fear. Well, it's a personal preferance but I would suggest KDE. It's hell easy to use and though it looks like windows, it's much more than that in all senses. And I never thought KDE will lose on issue of 'Looks' against GNOME.. Ever tried some themes?..;-) > Come back when you've done this and tell us about it. Oh sure.. Waiting for reply.. Shridhar _______________________________________________ linux-india-help mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-india-help
