Interesting: Is it possible to run a windows 2000 terminal server in vmware to allow users to choose from it or a regular lts kernel from within gdm|kdm|xdm?
I believe that the economy is cornering more and more companies to consider life saving cost reductions and once they use it they realize that the quality of OS SW is much better than other alternatives. --- Jan Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > * 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 __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus � Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com ------------------------------------------------------- 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
