Michael, thanks for taking the time to write such a detailed reply. On 19/03/14 22:04, Michael Pope wrote: > I migrated our small business over to LTSP from Windows XP in February > 2010 and everyone has been happy since. It was a slow migration though. > > First I got them using open source software on their Windows machines > (firefox, thunderbird and at the time openoffice), then I found > alternatives to programs which didn't run under linux and converted them > to use those.
The office is already using Firefox / TBird (and chrome) and has been for several years. I use Open Office and I'm happy so far. I haven't really tried to do anything complicated with it yet. One option I was considering was to run MS Office on a Windows terminal server and run the applications via RDP in seamless mode. However, it might be better to just get the users to try Open Office I setup a server (Ubuntu 9.10) and installed LTSP, all I > did to their windows boxes was turn PXE boot on in their bios and > rebooted, exactly the same hardware. On a slow day we did our first test > where they rebooted and used Linux for a day and they were very happy > with it. I setup a virtualbox image of their Windows XP machine which > they could access off the LTSP machine if needed and after that removed > the hard drives from their desktops. I also installed a product called > 'crossover linux' and installed MS Office for them, but they never used > it as they had converted to openoffice. I like the idea of introducing LTSP gradually and then virtualising the XP machine "for occasional use" > Over the years we have upgraded the computers to low powered thin > clients and put in a faster server and 1Gbit switches through the place. > Upgrading the hardware now is easy and cheap. I now run Debian stable as > I want something which is reliable and lean, we use XFCE4 as our > desktop. <snip> Since I'm keen to have fat clients only to start, am I right in saying that the LTSP server can be a bit more modest since it essentially just becomes a file server? Thanks again, I'd love to hear more and from others, Norrie ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Learn Graph Databases - Download FREE O'Reilly Book "Graph Databases" is the definitive new guide to graph databases and their applications. Written by three acclaimed leaders in the field, this first edition is now available. Download your free book today! http://p.sf.net/sfu/13534_NeoTech _____________________________________________________________________ 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
