What is the current consensus?
http://www.ltsp.org
Summary: Remove disks from clunky old PC's install boot rom image, and boot from network downloading kernel and OS from central server. Two options, 1. X-term, apps run on server and display to desktop, 2. local apps, applications run on local CPU, though software is installed on server and file system is shared via NFS. 3. Mix and match. Sit at any workstation, login and get your desktop, your mail config, your application list etc etc. (Whether the desktop is "local" apps or just an X-term doesn't matter). Performance is good so long as the server has mucho memory. As *nix is reentrant, it one user has the application already open, other users find the application launches very quickly. HTH P. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
