On Thu, Dec 19, 2002 at 02:18:49PM -0600, Bret Hughes wrote: > On Thu, 2002-12-19 at 13:53, Ed Wilts wrote: > Sort of a bummer since we use the distro for non server based tasks but > require considerable testing before rolling out a config. I would think > that this will slow down the acceptance of RHL on the corporate desktop > as well for the same reason. Maybe there will be a corporate desktop > release to handle this, but not availible in binary unless you pay for > it.
Here strikes one scarcley used aspect of Linux (actually of X11). As proven by the Linux Terminal Server Project, you can have diskless clients processing their workload in a central server. Such a server would most likely make good use of RHAS' optimizations. > Interesting times indeed. As people (read corporations ) begin to > evaluate linux side by side with windows I wonder where the priceing has > to be before windows looks better. Significant differences still exist > of course but thre eis a considerable difference between free and what > ever windows xp costs. But the comparison is not against windows itself, but rather with WinXP server running Terminal Services with the Citrix Metaframe addon. I will have some hard numbers on the subject by the end of January, since I'm writing my degree thesis on the subject. Cheers, -- Javier Gostling Av. Kennedy 5757, of. 1502 Ingeniero de Sistemas Las Condes, Santiago, Chile Virtualia S.A. Fono: +56 (2) 202-6264 x 130 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fax: +56 (2) 342-8763
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