Am 27. Aug, 2001 schwäzte dman so: > Perhaps you can take the hard drives out of most of the boxes and > stick them in a single high-powered box. Then make that high-powered > box the server and the rest as diskless X terminals. This way the > terminals have no config on them to deal with, it is all unified on > the server.
We've already done that :). We need the diskless stations to have different configs based on their use, though. They are also different architectures, e.g. x86, ppc, arm, strongarm and maybe xface, sparc. Running the same binaries isn't an option :). We take boards and put them online for development, hence the name DevelopOnline :). We end up with different purposes for the different environments. In the end I'll also need a way to keep packages in sync, both by what's installed and by what version. A single config won't work. Plus we have several servers which need to remain separate. This is something that needs to be easy for admins anyway, so we need a tool that will do it well and securely. ciao, der.hans -- # [EMAIL PROTECTED] home.pages.de/~lufthans/ www.DevelopOnline.com # "... the social skills of a cow on acid." - der.hans
