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Re: [LUG] Well - there's a change...

 

On 12/01/12 20:24, Simon Waters wrote:
On 12/01/12 15:35, Gordon Henderson wrote:

so it would have been hard to
change an entire org. overnight, but you never know...

I have wondered what would happen if there were more stuff like Skole
Linux, where you create a server that includes everything necessary to
convert clients (as many as possible) into either GNU/Linux boxes, or
just thin clients. Kind of like a panic button for when your network is
overrun with a virus and you just want something working safely....

I suspect it is too complex to do well enough due to diverse hardware,
and diverse BIOS/Boot software....


Actually from experience Ubuntu 8.04 LTS and 10.04 LTS with LTSP handles different hardware reasonably well picking everything up on machines I tested (couple of laptops, couple of desktops and a Virtual Box virtual machine). But I think you could be right about the BIOS, seems that these days quite a fair few support netbooting but there are still the odd few which don't. I guess times like that it's handy if all the machines are the same or fairly similar.

Rob

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