SuSE would have been a nice touch but I've steered clear of GUI configurations for the most part. SSH access for: Bacula backup, freeswitch for phones, NUT for UPS, pfSense for firewall, and OpenEMR for medical records. Of these all, pfSense is the only one better served from a web GUI.
Yudhvir Singh Sidhu CEO MediGrail LLC MediGrail.com On 6/10/11 6:15 PM, Jam wrote: > On Friday, June 10, 2011 11:25:29 PM ltsp-discuss- > [email protected] wrote: >>>> Thanks for all your support and ideas LTSPers, >>> IMHO SuSE with it's curses based yast is the nicest remote-admin distro >>> that exists. >> James, >> >> It is easy to see that LTSP is an elegant solution. And also easy to see >> that I could not have learned and supported it from far away on Ubuntu. >> This thing just did not want to show a desktop. I've decided to go with >> stand-alone 'fat clients' in my sense of the word. I.e. the Slitaz Linux >> distro. It fits in a thin client flash - about 80 MB footprint or runs >> off ram. I know it is old school. And there is no user file area. I have >> to replace a terminal server with a file server and mount stuff. I know >> that is not elegant. But sitting thousands of miles away from my users, >> I worry about reliability, support and simplicity, not elegance. >> >> I did not try SuSE mainly because I'm not familiar with that distro. >> Also, I was under the impression that software under Ubuntu is very >> simple. I'm using it as my file/phone server and application server. >> I'll have to take a look at SuSE. What do you mean by nicest >> remote-admin distro? > Ubuntu is nice, and it is easy to use. There are minor 'dona-toucha-da- > buttons' frustrations, but I quibble. > > One of the issues is where you have a machine, far away, and you want to do > *something* that would be easy to do from the console. The X based tools that > ubuntu offers are s-l-o-w over a remote link and do only a limited set of > things. > > SuSE's sysadmin tools set is very comprehensive (it handles many different > tasks) and it can use a pretty X interface locally or a fast curses based > interface for remote machines. > > The more remote machines you drive, the more this would be a blessing. It is > unique (I've not seen it anywhere else) and quite usable. > > 'Course you *can* do everything from an editor! > > James > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > EditLive Enterprise is the world's most technically advanced content > authoring tool. Experience the power of Track Changes, Inline Image > Editing and ensure content is compliant with Accessibility Checking. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/ephox-dev2dev > _____________________________________________________________________ > 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ EditLive Enterprise is the world's most technically advanced content authoring tool. Experience the power of Track Changes, Inline Image Editing and ensure content is compliant with Accessibility Checking. http://p.sf.net/sfu/ephox-dev2dev _____________________________________________________________________ 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
