Converting a MS company to Linux

How about combining mosix and LTSP? See <http://mosix-ltsp.dynu.com/>.
Mosix does for computers what SMP does for CPU's (lets multiple machines
operate as a single unit without special programming). If a computer
fails, you lose a couple processes instead of the whole computer.
There's nothing that would prevent you from having redundant NFS servers
in the mix as well.

Just a thought.

George


Bill Warner wrote:
>
> Hmmm, I wonder if using an IBM GPFS shared cluster rather than nfs
> would be a good way to run the terminal server?
>
> I am looking into building a cluster for one of our application
> servers. Maybe I will hold that knowledge for use in a terminal server
> project. Just seems like running any kind of terminal servers runs a
> huge possibility with a single point of failure that would put a lot of
> sales people out of work for the downtime.
>
> Bill W
>
> On Wed, 2002-10-02 at 16:52, Matt Alexander wrote:
> > On 2 Oct 2002, Bill Warner wrote:
> >
> > > If anyone knows of a good way to support 700 Linux desktops I would be
> > > more than open to suggest ins.
> >
> > Lots of Linux Terminal Servers. :-) Have the home directories mounted
> > on several NFS servers. Create fail-over NFS servers that rsync the
> > user's home directories over each night. Make good backups too.
> >
> > http://ltsp.org
> >
> > http://k12ltsp.org
> >
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