On Friday, June 10, 2011 11:25:29 PM ltsp-discuss- [email protected] wrote: > >> Thanks for all your support and ideas LTSPers, > > > > IMHO SuSE with it's curses based yast is the nicest remote-admin distro > > that exists. > > James, > > It is easy to see that LTSP is an elegant solution. And also easy to see > that I could not have learned and supported it from far away on Ubuntu. > This thing just did not want to show a desktop. I've decided to go with > stand-alone 'fat clients' in my sense of the word. I.e. the Slitaz Linux > distro. It fits in a thin client flash - about 80 MB footprint or runs > off ram. I know it is old school. And there is no user file area. I have > to replace a terminal server with a file server and mount stuff. I know > that is not elegant. But sitting thousands of miles away from my users, > I worry about reliability, support and simplicity, not elegance. > > I did not try SuSE mainly because I'm not familiar with that distro. > Also, I was under the impression that software under Ubuntu is very > simple. I'm using it as my file/phone server and application server. > I'll have to take a look at SuSE. What do you mean by nicest > remote-admin distro?
Ubuntu is nice, and it is easy to use. There are minor 'dona-toucha-da- buttons' frustrations, but I quibble. One of the issues is where you have a machine, far away, and you want to do *something* that would be easy to do from the console. The X based tools that ubuntu offers are s-l-o-w over a remote link and do only a limited set of things. SuSE's sysadmin tools set is very comprehensive (it handles many different tasks) and it can use a pretty X interface locally or a fast curses based interface for remote machines. The more remote machines you drive, the more this would be a blessing. It is unique (I've not seen it anywhere else) and quite usable. 'Course you *can* do everything from an editor! James ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ EditLive Enterprise is the world's most technically advanced content authoring tool. Experience the power of Track Changes, Inline Image Editing and ensure content is compliant with Accessibility Checking. http://p.sf.net/sfu/ephox-dev2dev _____________________________________________________________________ Ltsp-discuss mailing list. To un-subscribe, or change prefs, goto: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ltsp-discuss For additional LTSP help, try #ltsp channel on irc.freenode.net
