Christian Collins wrote: >> >>Career Microsoft folks (like myself) wanting to move from the Microsoft >>community >>
er,... where can I find the "Microsoft community" ? I needed to find some very basic info on Microsoft TS some time a go for an integration project. In particular I wanted to know whether one needs to install Windows CE on the client machine or not. I could not find any basic info whatsoever - neither with our local MS dealers nor on the www where I normally look for info. >>to the Open Source Linux community face enormous challenges when >>first arriving in the neighborhood. We don't understand the "lingo" or even >>where to go to find anything that looks vaguely familiar. >> >> Yes - Google is really hard to use ;-) >> >>I got super pumped when I Googled "Open Source Linux Terminal Server" and >>the 2nd item was titled, "K12 Linux in Schools Project". >> Case in point - now Google again and try to compare the quality and technical depth in information on LTSP (see specifically www.ltsp.org) to what you can find about Windows TS using Google - even to Micrsoft's official TS documentation which I assume must exist somehere burried deep in MSDN which ironically also comes with a search engine front-end ? >>I read all of the >>"Testimonials" and "Case Studies" and determined that this was a perfect >>match. >> >> Coming form the MS community the first thing you should know is never to trust the sales spin :-) >>In the Windows world it is easy to configure the "All Users" Start Menu >>(C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Start Menu), or customize a Start Menu >>for a particular user. You can customize the Default User environment (local >>machine) as a template for subsequent new users. >>When incorporating Citrix into the Mix, you can install software on the >>Citrix server and "Publish" the application for a particular user or group. >> >> You are comparing and lumping together different things here - probably in the MS world everything is lumped together and all mixed up conceptually from the sewerage to the plumbing to the air-conditioning. Which may seem great until the day when the sewerage spills over :-) LTSP provides basic services for terminal services whereas various GNU/Linux programs proved file/operating system level user management. There are GUI applications embedded in KDE and Gnome which makes use of these programs. What you are looking for is an application that would manage user accounts specifically for easy usage under LTSP - unfurtunately I'm not aware of such a project but I may very well be wrong. That is not the end of the road though - if there is nothing out there for easy consumption you can always build a set of scripts to do this yourself. >>2) What are other schools using for URL filtering and Surf Control to keep >>students from "stumbling" across Porn Sites or any other topic deemed >>"inappropriate"? >> Most folks use a powerful proxy server called Squid or perhaps something like http://www.urlfilterdb.com/Software.htm running on Squid. regards, Eugene Coetzee ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _____________________________________________________________________ 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
