* Joey Officer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [021120 13:00]: [snip] > at anyrate, i've noticed alot of response that say 'use vmware' to various > questions. anyone doing so should remember that while this may work, are > you stay legal by doing so, if someone really wanted to audit you, do you > own each copy of the installed WinOS installation, it doesn't matter if the > install is within vmware, vmware is a seperate program all together. > > /rant
I agree, and the same is true to a lesser extent for the various versions of wine, whether free or commercial (for the application licenses). With VMWare, you have to pay a hefty license for VMWare itself, and for any OS you run in it. VMWare is really good for developers, though. You can run any version of Windows in it, and check out its interaction with your LTSP network. You can try out a new Linux distribution in it without having to mess up your production server. And (thanks to Jim McQuillan's suggestion) you can even run an LTSP workstation in it. I find it interesting when people try to stretch LTSP to do more and more local things, but I begin to wonder why they're bothering with LTSP anyway, if they don't really want a thin client. It's most impressive use to me is with minimal thin clients to cut the cost of acquisition AND administration for schools, non-profits, developing countries, and anywhere else where the cost is a really major factor. -- Jan Wilson, SysAdmin _/*]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Corozal Junior College | |:' corozal.com corozal.bz Corozal Town, Belize | /' chetumal.com & linux.bz Reg. Linux user #151611 |_/ Network, PHP, Perl, HTML ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _____________________________________________________________________ Ltsp-discuss mailing list. To un-subscribe, or change prefs, goto: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ltsp-discuss For additional LTSP help, try #ltsp channel on irc.openprojects.net
