One of the joys of Linux is that it isn't difficult to administer a machine remotely. My wife has a machine in her office with an older distro. Last night I ran updates and OpenOffice doesn't work anymore. I seems that a support library went AWOL.
Rather than fix that older version of OpenOffice, I accessed her machine over an openvpn tunnel, installed a new version of LibreOffice, replaced the startup icon on her desktop, then tested it on a couple of test files over ssh and remote X. Kinda slow accessing an X app when the link from her office is DSL, but faster than driving down there, waiting for a break in her schedule, etc. And a lot faster than bringing up a remote desktop, with mouse animation trailing my movements by fractions of a minute. I also have nightly backups of her machine on my server here; I will be replacing her office computer soon, and use those backups on top of the latest distro to build the new machine. Keith -- Keith Lofstrom [email protected] _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
