I now feel that LINUX as a whole can find a place in business. As a System Administrator over SGI, Sun (from Solaris1 to Solaris2) as well Windoze. I have a great appreciation of the influence of distributed systems and the mixing of all these environments. I have encouraged the use of Apache, Samba and other systems in the market place. I now would like to experiment with Linux and its installation in a large controlled environment. Is there any experience out there? All the packages of Linux I see seem to be aimed at local installations and tricky installation flags need to be used to centralize information over NFS so a central server can distribute packages over a range of clients. Can Network packages be incorporated in the distribution of Mandrake? (Am I missing some fundamental information?) I want to install packages like netscape in /opt/netscape then mount /opt to all clients so one upgrade covers all. At the moment there seems to be move to putting everything on local disks like /usr/bin etc. What is the minimum install base for a client before using a served application? Advice would be greatly appreciated. With Thanks. Ian Wales.
