Hi all
I'm new to this list, so please forgive me for any faux-pas I make in ignorance ;-)
I work as a sysadmin in a small company and we're using Linux on the desktop (mainly). I'm looking for an efficient and workable solution to run MS-office applications, but I'd like to keep the desktops running Linux.
Do you need M$Office? or do you need to be able to handle M$Office documents? For the latter one, I personally just moved from M$Office to OpenOffice and there are more alternatives.
One solution I thought up was that it might be possible to install one really fast machine with lots of memory, running windows and a VNC server and connecting the users to that machine from the Linux Desktop. If this would fast enough of course ;-)
Well, the default M$Windows implementation of vnc differe verry much from the linux implementation. On M$Windows, you can only get a console view, no dedicated sessions.
Then you might like to run a single application, not a complete desktop. Something vnc is currently not capable of.
My question is whether there is some experience with a solution like this (and if so, what are the experiences with such a solution) or if not, why is this not a good solution?
For that I Personally advice to look for something like Citrix ICA. Then you can have a single M$Windows seraver with multiple virtual displays that can show on a linux box (and every X11 box). But since you look at VNC, I think licensing a M$Windows - Citrix server goes way beyond budget.
TIA
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