I'm working on just such a system to use at work. The owner of the company is
quite interested. To date I have been using my own box to run linux at work
as an individual workstation. This weekend I did a K12LTSP install with mixed
sucess, but I'm certian that it will soon work. Once it works on my box,
he'll have to spring foe a new box and I'll have mine available again.
One additional idea. In addition to some terminals running off the server, I'd
suggest running samba as well with a windows box on the system so that a
person could for example create a word file on Win98, save it to a share on
the samba server, open the file in linux with open office. Create it in open
office, open it in windows etc. This would demonstrate a good migration path.
Charlie
On Thursday 25 July 2002 16:41, Alan Dayley wrote:
> We need to put together a 3 or 4 workstation demo LTSP setup that we can
> have at shows and conferences like this. Some boot KDE. Some boot
> GNOME. Each slightly customized (wallpaper, whatever) but all running from
> the server. All running OpenOffice, etc.
>
> In my efforts at Linux promotion, I am finding that management and IT
> people are VERY interested in the LTSP setup. I am starting to think that
> this is the "killer application" for getting Linux into businesses.
>
> They like the idea of:
> - Using older computers for terminals instead of throwing them away and
> having to spend money on new ones.
> - Central control of what software is running.
> - Single point update to bring all the users up-to-date.
> - Complete user access control (ie. no accessable workstation floppy or
> CD-ROM).
> - Central internet access control.
> - VERY little virus worries.
>
> Even MS loving managers perk up when you start to talk about this
> capability.
>
> "Now that you have played with this workstation, Mr. Manager, and found
> it's performance at least acceptable, notice as I take the cover off that
> it has no hard drive, and it is a 200MHz PC just like the ones you have
> sitting un-used in your back room..."
>
> I tell you, that will get attention!
>
> Alan
>
> At 03:57 PM 7/25/02 -0700, you wrote:
> >When we first got there, there was plenty of people at the booths, but
> >around 1ish there was just Jim and Hans.
> >One thing that I saw that we REALLY needed was computers. There was one
> >down there when I first got there, but it went home soon after. I was
> >hoping to see sevral computers running around there, but it was
> >dissappointing to not see any. People do like to stop by the booths
> >with the toys and we had none :(
> >
> >Brian Cluff
>
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