What I have found useful when I was evaluating looking at the Delphi crossCLX thingie (and some people don;t seem to realise this) you can establish a Linux environment (any number of flavours of them) and load one by one into a Virtual Box.
If you make an application with special requirements, you can get Ubuntu and Fedorra (Redhat community edition) to compile a linux install of your Linux environemnt (your application intact) and distribute under the appropriate license. With out thinking (dangerous?) I am sure this would apply to Free Pascal and Lazarus as well. In our guests' area we have a linux box for visitors to surf the web, do thier emails etc ... I've just got "The Official Ubuntu Book" out of the local Library (amazing source of stuff you can interlaon from the National Library - try before you buy) In it they point out that Edubuntu (and Ubuntu) makes available an LTSP environment that can even co-exist with a Windows DHCP server. This allows the old master slave type terminal situation, except its full GUI - need a good powerful server - but it has been working in thousands of schools, municipalities and situations all over the world for some time now. We are being eclipsed on Windows, there is a whole generation of children growing up in Ubuntu and like releases in many places. If you have a client who needs data processing terminals or like (even internet cafes are using it), your slave machines do not even need a harddrive in them! Ethernet boot (takes me back to the future). I must emphesise this is not theroretical, it is in production and used ALL OVER the world sucesfully right now! Wait for this (P. 361 of the 2nd Edition 2007 - and they've improved since then) -- "Generally, a machine runnig a 400Mhz processor with 128RAM will make an excellant thin client." You get a full desktop! Sound, internet of course, streaming video if you set up correctly. Only one machine to administer, the rest are clones, but they can use USB devices etc., and individual user logins Unix style. You can run a hybrid network, run linux in Virtual Boxes for special applications, multi boot,, side by side, what ever you want, and its scalible right to the corporate environement - and its already happening! I think the Delphi roadmap is taking us to Linux, and Lazarus does it, so it looks good for what I now consider to be ... "The Pascal Community". Paul 2009/9/25 Alister Christie <alis...@salespartner.co.nz> > I agree, I think the old arguments of Linux not being ready for the > desktop are no longer valid. If you compare a standard windows > installation to a modern Linux distribution (Ubuntu as you mentioned), > you get so much more out of the box. It also runs on "outdated" > hardware quite nicely. I've had a few difficulties with drivers > (although admittedly windows is no better), but mostly things just run. > > Alister Christie > Computers for People > Ph: 04 471 1849 Fax: 04 471 1266 > http://www.salespartner.co.nz > PO Box 13085 > Johnsonville > Wellington > > > > John Bird wrote: > > Aside - had a look at a 9.04 Ubuntu distribution a few days ago and > > was very impressed - got the ISO and burnt to a CD. > > > > Can boot from the CD drive and run it. Can install as like a virtual > > HD partition in the Windows file system (WUBI) and boot either Windows > > or Ubuntu. > > > > What impressed me was: > > > > Slick and polished. > > Easy to find all the stuff - as easy to use as Windows/Mac, rather > > liked the default of different start points at all 4 corners of the > > screen rather than everything from one start button and complex menu. > > Recognised ethernet and wireless connections immediately > > Task manager is very nice - moves continuously not once a second like > > windows. > > Could browse the NTFS HD > > Contained email program, Browser (Firefox), and Office (Open Office), > > graphics (GIMP) and more... > > > > How they fit all of that onto one CD really impressed me. > > > > Maybe time to experiment with Lazarus - now all I need is some spare > time! > > > > John > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > > _______________________________________________ > > NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi mailing list > > Post: delphi@delphi.org.nz > > Admin: http://delphi.org.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi > > Unsubscribe: send an email to delphi-requ...@delphi.org.nz with Subject: > unsubscribe > _______________________________________________ > NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi mailing list > Post: delphi@delphi.org.nz > Admin: http://delphi.org.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi > Unsubscribe: send an email to delphi-requ...@delphi.org.nz with Subject: > unsubscribe >
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