Hi
Ran into a situation where I had to upgrade all the P1/2/3 Win98 pc's or
change them into thin clients. I bought one P4 with 1Gb of Ram (never
uses more than 512 mb) and a fast 200Gb HD. Loaded Mandrake/Mandriva
with the terminal server package installed. Now all 6 workstations boots
of the stiffy drive and run on Mandrake P4 server using OO. The users
who still needs Windows apps run Win4Lin with Win98 sessions on their
Mandrake thin clients. Very stable. Only the 1st user after a reboot
takes long to load OO, thereafter almost instantanious on the other thin
clients. One pc to upgrade, maintain and backup! OO runs the same speed
on a P1 thin client as on the P4 server desktop. The terminal server
software is easy to install (rpm) with a nice easy GUI to create boot
disks and setup the DHCP server etc.
If you want to keep the Win98 PC, try remote X sessions like VNC, but
you will not be able to cut & paste between Win98 and Linux. O, and stay
away from Win4Lin Pro which promisses Win XP to Run on Linux, it is
still very Beta and horribly slow! The Win4Lin 5.x product is great!
Johan
jaco wrote:
I t seems I am not authorised to browse www.conv.de. Do I need to change my
settings in IE?
I have set up a P4 machine with win XP pro with 256Mb. I also have another
machine of the same configuration with Fedora Core 1, both have OO 1.1.2
installed. Since I am trying to get as many in our org to switch over to OO,
I have been loading OO into the desktop comp of others. Most of the
objection arrises because of the delay in loading the OO files -they are
used to MSOffice. I have heard that if OO (perhaps I am confusing with Star
Office ?) can be loaded in a machine as a service the clients can use it on
the network at a much faster speed. So I am looking for ways to achieve this
speed. Most of the client machines run Win98 and may have only 32 to 64 Mb
mem.
I hope I have made myself clear.
TIA
jaco
----- Original Message -----
From: CPHennessy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>; jaco <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, July 15, 2005 4:00 AM
Subject: Re: [users] server side OO
On Thursday 14 July 2005 03:12, + jaco wrote:
is there a version of OO for the server. if so how to set it up?
OpenOffice.org can be run on a server, but it really depends what you want
to
do with it. As an example have a look at http:/www.conv.de
Please reply to [email protected] only
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