Andy Davies wrote:
> but they're *not* working on the desktop they are using a 'thin client'** -
> which is my objection to this as a pro-linux story ...
>
> that and the fact that someone who 'loves the OS' apparently can't come up
> with a script to grant privs
>
> ** they don't appear to say *which* client - just that 'the OS ... is not
> built for the thin client'
> It may be I'm a bit sensitive about 'thin clients' - my employers are in
> the process of rolling out Wyse terminals + Citrix to replace 95% of pc's
> ("what goes around comes around" - but sometimes in reverse! - one of the
> factors that did lead to the takeup of [IBM] pc's was that they could
> replace dumb terminals, and were cheaper. The Wyse terminals are now
> cheaper - but not much, it's really all a control thing.
>
>
>
That was the point of my original response.....it seems like a
throw-back to the old mainframe days with dumb terminals.
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