[KLUG Members] Lindows - Lycoris, and big and small installations

[Rusty Yonkers]

> Actually, this is probably my other beef with Lindows (and distros
> like it):
> trying to be too much like Windows.

For the uninitiated home user just starting out the more it looks
like something they are familiar with the more apt it will be
adopted.  Lower the initial learning curve so that people will get a
good feeling about it to start with and then they will be more apt to
want to learn the rest.  Gradual change is always easier than a
paradigm shift.  And there are some nice things in Windows that Linux
could learn from.  It is nice to be able in a sticky situation to be
able to edit all the X configuration files but most of the time I
should be able to just click on an app or right click on the desktop
and reset my resolutions and color depths without having an
engineering degree!  

Windows truly makes the simple things simple.  It also makes the hard
things almost impossible to do.  Linux makes the hard things easier
but often makes the simple things unnessisarily (sp?) difficult.  

> 
> > 
> > It uses the lizard installer which is, IMHO, the best installer
> out
> > there.  The install is smooth and easy.  It starts actually
> > installing the system even before all of the questions are
> answered. 
> > When you are done answering the questions you get to play
> solitare.  
> 
> Isn't this the same installer that Open Linux (now Caldera) used?
> 

Yes it is.... and it is still the nicest installer IMHO (although the
screen shots of Xandros look really nice - and SuSE is not bad)

 
> Maybe for a home user, or like you say, to "get started". But in a

Yes I was talking of the home user or onesy twosey world for Lycoris

> corporate
> world, is Lycoris up to the challenge? I can see managing 6,000+
> desktops with

In a corporate world I think that the ONLY way to go for the Majority
of the workstations is LTSP terminals with one or two big servers. 
And I was looking at the cost differential of getting new machines so
you could have standardized hardware and lower setup and support
costs over against using old "useless for windows" computers for
terminals and I think with the price of hardware now it is worth
throwing out the old eq or using it for firewalls in the backrooms
and such.  When you can put together a motherboard, case, memory
combo for just over $100 it just is not worth the headaches and
support expense to try to strip the other computers down and setup
all the multiple config files and the dhcp reservations etc etc etc
to get the old stuff to work.  And if a terminal does croak then just
unplug the old and plug in the new......  Have one, two, or more
servers for applications servers and then do NFS mounts for home
drives on a "home drive server".  Also NFS mounts for teh "shared
data server" or have a shared data area on the same server as the
home drives if there is not too much traffic.  An administration
heaven!!!!



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Rusty Yonkers
CNE, MCP, A+, CCNA, Linux+, Server+, Network+ certified
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Ubergeek -- An Atomic Supergeek with an attitude!
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Currently using SuSE 8.2, Mac OS X, and WinXP (would love to get rid of last one)

...............looking for penguin domination.....................

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