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Rob Beard wrote:
John Horne wrote:On Fri, 2005-12-02 at 16:00 +0000, Rob Beard wrote:I'd like to do a bit more to help promote Open Source. I'm now just about completely moved over to Ubuntu (okay, I'll admit, I still do runCan I ask what you like about Ubuntu and what you moved from? I use Fedora but will be looking at Ubuntu shortly for our grid computing since I gather it includes LTSP builtin and allows easy installation of additional packages onto the thin-client. John.Well in the past I have used RedHat, Fedora, Suse, Mandrake. Before I installed Ubuntu, I had attempted to install Gentoo from a Stage 1 install (i.e. installing everything from scratch, building the binaries from souce etc). I found I didn't have the knowledge to get a Gentoo system up and running properly. I could get Gnome/KDE installed, but I just wanted something that was useable quickly. I figured I've give Ubuntu a try (I already use Debian 3.1 along with LTSP 4.0 on my Linux Terminal Server) and I found apt-get was great to work with. What I like about Ubuntu is the ease of use. It runs Gnome as standard and comes with a nice selection of software (although I had add Thunderbird for my e-mail). I think it's mainly down to personal preference. I've used SUSE 9.3 in the past which I found to be quite good and easy to use as a Desktop system. I'm not so keen on Fedora myself. I recently tried to install Fedora Core 3 (i386) on my PC while I'm trying to get a MythTV box up and running. It didn't seem to like my NVidia chipset (Nforce 3) and wouldn't boot. Still 10 minutes later, I was back in Ubuntu (the Ubuntu Live CD is great!) I haven't tried LTSP in Ubuntu. From what I have read (in a recent Linux format magazine), LTSP is included in the Edbuntu distro. Not sure how easy it is to get up and running though. LTSP was fairly easy to get running on Debian (after I changed the DHCP Server & TFTP server) and it even boots on my old Blueberry iMac. Where adding applications is concerned, on my LTSP server, if I add an application using Synaptic, I can use it from the LTSP server itself, or from any of the LTSP terminals. It means installing applications is so much easier, rather than installing multiple copies, you just install the one copy. Hope this helps. Rob -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG Mail majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe list" in the message body to unsubscribe. FAQ: www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html
Rob,With your knowledge of LTSP and your computer repair skills, you should try breaking into the education market. There are lots of schools that can ill afford the 3 year life cycle game with hardware becoming redundant due to (engineered) redundancy in the software desgin. You would also be increasing the Linux Market quite rapidly (kids using gnu/linux at school = parents potentially switching over).
Just a thought. Tom. -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG Mail majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe list" in the message body to unsubscribe. FAQ: www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html