-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 17 June 2004 22:48, John Clay wrote: > But there it is. What distribution would you recommend, and why, for a > business system that will use OO.o and Evolution? I generally set up Mandrake as a server for LTSP, purely since most of the sites I install prefer KDE. The 9.2 version (and probably 10.0 now) of Mandrake has a very slick looking and well integrated desktop which looks good for corporate users used to Windows.
If your site requires commercial support, then the enterprise versions of Red Hat or Suse are very good. But then you'd probably want to use the Gnome desktop, I've had good feedback from a site running Suse 9 with Gnome/StarOffice 7/Evolution. Since Star Office and OO.o are very similar, I guess that layout would work well for you too. > I've been away from ltsp work for a while. I'm ready to configure a new > ltsp server and with so many changes in the Linux world I just have to > ask for suggestions as to the distribution upon which to base this > latest effort. I'm no guru, a relative newbie actually. I've based an > ltsp system on Red Hat 7.2 and on 7.3. I've got Red Hat 8 on CD but am > really out of touch with current goings on. The free versions of Red Hat are now known as Fedora. A lot of people have used Fedora core 1 and had no problems, the new version Fedora core 2 is just out and I've not used it yet. For corporate installations I try and stick to official supported versions, since that tends to sit better with the managers. > I'm also curious to hear if anyone had any luck in changing management > minds based on the ltsp/windows thick client comparision I posted on > ltsp.org some time ago. Hope so. My experience with opinions varies wildly. At some sites the managers and general end-users love the simplicity and stability of LTSP and thin clients in general. At others the users have loved the system, but the management have missed minor Win32 applications or just plain don't trust a server based system for one reason or another. The only common factor I've come across is that IT-workers such as programmers or support people hate thin clients and tend to give unfavourable reviews to the decision makers. Their official reasons tend to vary, but I get the impression that the major problem is that they feel like they have lost control over their own desktop. Basic end-users never even seem to think about this =) The most successful site I've had threw out all the old PC's and invested in new mini-itx based workstations for the old monitors. The silence of the new workstations smoothed over some initial complaints about lack of plugin support in the web browser. - -- /Anthony Whitehead Unix Sysadmin PGP Key: http://www.solace.mh.se/~ant/ant.pubkey 1024D/1963012A 49C3 A871 43A8 B912 12D2 046E 8FCC 6062 1963 012A - -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFA0iCBj8xgYhljASoRAtbpAKCEBstgR6aVx5OuOaeQGzN80L6mlACcCxiO rTWoIFDFcWCEveYGEv2NYAc= =ahuG -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by The 2004 JavaOne(SM) Conference Learn from the experts at JavaOne(SM), Sun's Worldwide Java Developer Conference, June 28 - July 1 at the Moscone Center in San Francisco, CA REGISTER AND SAVE! http://java.sun.com/javaone/sf Priority Code NWMGYKND _____________________________________________________________________ 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.freenode.net
