Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Feasibility of LTSP

2002-06-27 Thread Jim Wildman
I totally agree with Russ. And the requirements analysis (which needs to be brutally honest) needs to include costs with the benefits. ie, Outlook/Exchange allows us to do shared calendars, but also means we will spend $$ for virus scanning, etc. The OpenSource package provides calendars this w

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Feasibility of LTSP

2002-06-26 Thread R P Herrold
On Wed, 26 Jun 2002, John McCreesh wrote: > > We're somewhat married to Exchange -- what are your thoughts on > > Evolution? > > Not a complete plug-in replacement for Outlook - it uses the web access > interface of Exchange 2000 (which you probably aren't using yet :-). > Check the small print

RE: [Ltsp-discuss] Feasibility of LTSP

2002-06-26 Thread R P Herrold
On Wed, 26 Jun 2002, Mark Farey wrote: > I'm investigating using LTSP for a medical practice, which is a similar > requirement. You might like to take a look at twiggi for the scheduling and > groupware. See http://myezserver.com/twiggi.html fascinating -- a GPL'd variant exists, which solves li

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Feasibility of LTSP

2002-06-26 Thread Derek Zoolander
On Thu, 2002-06-27 at 02:59, Phil Driscoll wrote: > The only question I'm qualified to answer: > > * How long does it take a diskless WS to boot from a central > > server, assuming a decently powered server and a 100Mbps network > > connection? > > Not long at all - much quicker tha

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Feasibility of LTSP

2002-06-26 Thread R P Herrold
On Wed, 26 Jun 2002, Jan Humme wrote: > On Wednesday 26 June 2002 08:05 pm, R P Herrold wrote: > > With a dual P-III 650, and a G or ram, switched, a ThinkNIC > > comes up, worst case in 1 m 52 s (based on much testing) > > ?? > > On my old Pentium 266 MHz, 128 MB RAM, old (hence slow) 4 GB HDD

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Feasibility of LTSP

2002-06-26 Thread John McCreesh
On Wed, 26 Jun 2002 17:21:22 -0400 "Lowe, Scott" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > We're somewhat married to Exchange -- what are your thoughts on > Evolution? > Not a complete plug-in replacement for Outlook - it uses the web access interface of Exchange 2000 (which you probably aren't using yet :-

RE: [Ltsp-discuss] Feasibility of LTSP

2002-06-26 Thread Lowe, Scott
We're somewhat married to Exchange -- what are your thoughts on Evolution? -Original Message- From: Michael Marschall [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, June 26, 2002 3:28 PM To: Mark Farey Cc: 'R P Herrold'; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [Ltsp-discuss] Feasibil

RE: [Ltsp-discuss] Feasibility of LTSP

2002-06-26 Thread Michael Marschall
My suggestion for groupware is phpgroupware. It has just about everything you can want in a groupware suite. www.phpgroupware.org On Wed, 26 Jun 2002, Mark Farey wrote: > > > Collaborative calendaring if really used, has a couple *nix > > solutions whcih are price competitive. But the Corel Wo

RE: [Ltsp-discuss] Feasibility of LTSP

2002-06-26 Thread Mark Farey
> Collaborative calendaring if really used, has a couple *nix > solutions whcih are price competitive. But the Corel Word > Perfect Suite had Perfect Scredule when I last looked at it. > Are you using the Corel Scheduler, the MS scheduler, a paper > ad-hoc solution, ... ? > I'm investigating us

RE: [Ltsp-discuss] Feasibility of LTSP

2002-06-26 Thread Egan, Matt B. (Artco)
acceptable time (less then one minute) > -Original Message- > From: Jan Humme [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, June 26, 2002 1:34 PM > To: R P Herrold; Lowe, Scott > Cc: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' > Subject: Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Feasibility of LTSP > >

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Feasibility of LTSP

2002-06-26 Thread Jan Humme
On Wednesday 26 June 2002 08:05 pm, R P Herrold wrote: > With a dual P-III 650, and a G or ram, switched, a ThinkNIC > comes up, worst case in 1 m 52 s (based on much testing) ?? On my old Pentium 266 MHz, 128 MB RAM, old (hence slow) 4 GB HDD, 10BASE-T ethernet, my ThinkNIC boots in less than

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Feasibility of LTSP

2002-06-26 Thread Michael Marschall
To add a point. my clients load in no more than 30 seconds. michael On Wed, 26 Jun 2002, R P Herrold wrote: > On Wed, 26 Jun 2002, Lowe, Scott wrote: > > Hi Scott -- Russ Herrold here -- when I was an AAG on Ohio, > first in a line department regulating charitable > soliticacions, and them on C

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Feasibility of LTSP

2002-06-26 Thread R P Herrold
On Wed, 26 Jun 2002, Lowe, Scott wrote: Hi Scott -- Russ Herrold here -- when I was an AAG on Ohio, first in a line department regulating charitable soliticacions, and them on Chief Counsel's staff, I spoke with people at the national NAAG office with some frequency. > LTSP sounds like an ext

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Feasibility of LTSP

2002-06-26 Thread Phil Driscoll
The only question I'm qualified to answer: > * How long does it take a diskless WS to boot from a central > server, assuming a decently powered server and a 100Mbps network > connection? Not long at all - much quicker than any version of Windows on any box I've ever used. We have 2

[Ltsp-discuss] Feasibility of LTSP

2002-06-26 Thread Lowe, Scott
LTSP sounds like an extremely promising product, but like many others, I’m a little wary at jumping off the Microsoft bandwagon.  I want to save money and give my users a great environment, but I don’t want to screw myself in the process.  As such, I have a few questions that maybe someone