Speaking of which maybe we can tackle something that was discussed in the
PLUG meeting, specifically offering a "way out" of proprietary software
for office and government agencies. Consistent with our multi-pronged
approach, education and advocacy, maybe we can come up with an open source
alternative to typical windows environments that will allow government
agencies to fully or partially migrate to a linux environment with the
least possible hassle.
In general, my idea was something along the lines of
Hardware:
Old/existing machines, possibly new server?
existing network infrastructure
Technology:
Linux/LTSP
Complete network setup with central user authentication via
pam/samba/ldap
Staroffice running on an application server/X Client
Hookup with Internet gateway with policy based proxy
Intra-Internet Email
Intranet messaging via jabber
The goal i am thinking of is to make a "distro" [open source of course]
that will support this kind of setup off the box. We don't need to make an
entirely new distro, we can modify a RH or Mandrake distro and put in our
own packages..
If everything that is needed is on-disk, possibly with pre-configured
scripts, or support programs, it would be very easy to deploy
As a project this big cannot be done by one entity alone, contributory
effort is needed, and i hope this can generate enough interest to gather
momentum...
On Thu, 30 Aug 2001, neuroticimbecile wrote:
> On Thursday 30 August 2001 13:51, you wrote:
> > To all,
> >
> > Can someone help me in implementing thin clients using a Red Hat 6.2
> > Server? What are the steps that must be followed?
> >
> > -Jeff
>
> hi,
>
> there are detailed instructions here:
> http://www.ltsp.org
>
> hth,
> -eric
>
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