and the remainder or the thread:
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Originally Posted by Lester
Hi,
Thanks for sharing that arkay...
I can feel another experiment coming on 
Is this using XDMCP once the machine has booted from the network?
I suppose this is pretty much the same as "Thin Client" sort of stuff. My mate is an accountant and they're heading in this direction with all their terminals.
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Lester,
That's exactly what it is
For myth it's a little different and you network boot an OS image rather than an XDMCP client.
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Originally Posted by ExtremePC
Arkay, I've wanted to play with just that for a while now, in the words of some pollie, please explain!
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Not entirely sure what more to explain that I didn't mention in the first post
What do you want to know? How it's done?
Haven't got time right now (want to go home for the day), but there is some light reading at
http://www.ltsp.org/
For Suse linux there is a guide
here.
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Originally Posted by Birdie101
Did anyone else get a sense of passion in Arkay's last post?
Pretty impressive stuff.
(Mental note: must learn more about linux than just cut+paste howtos from the web...) |
Hehe.. More stuff to play with... This is what happens when I get bored with Closed source progress....
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Originally Posted by Bella
LOL. What I meant to say was that I am a bit through all the noob stuff like installing all the eye candy etc...You will know what I am talking about. |
Yes, I do. Can only play with the pretties for so long before you want to see what it can really do.
As a side note I did my first ever install of linux for a family of non technical people yesterday (friend of ours). Their teenage sons (of of them a would be hacker), managed to break windows so regularly that the machine was un-usable to them without the intervention of someone like me on a regular basis.
No amount of virus protection, registry cleaning, adware removal and de-fragging can help a family with a destructive teenager in the house.
When I left they were very happy that they're machine was usable again (and fast). Will be interesting to see how it progresses but for their basic email, IM and internet uses I think it's going to work out much better for all of us
Cheers,
Arkay.