On Wed, Dec 20, 2000 at 03:15:40AM -0500, Mike Nowlin wrote:
>
> I recently made the decision to upgrade all of our net-booted X terminals
> to full-blown workstations. (Basically, adding a hard drive and some
> memory.) Having 19 people running Netscape remotely on our Alpha is
> sucking up a gig of RAM and almost two gigs of swap, not to mention the
> "normal" things the Alpha has to do...
>
> After fighting off (quite violently, I might add) the top-level
> management who wanted to "just give everyone a Windows 98 machine - I
> never have any problems with mine at home...!", I came up with the
> following:
>
> -- Celeron 700-ish, 100Mb FXP, 20G, 64 or 128M, S3 or ATI Rage video
> -- NIS for uname/passwd auth - any user can use any machine
> -- /home mounted via NFS off a master file server for the users' files
> -- everything else (with whatever exceptions I find) on the local HD.
> -- (suggestions???)
>
> The users will basically need to be able to run X w/Gnome, StarOffice,
> Nutscrape, and (the huge, resource-hogging app) telnet.
>
> I'm planning on building a fairly big machine to do world builds on to
> keep these machines (30-ish) all synced to the same OS version, probably
> with weekly installworlds on them.
>
>
> Questions
> ---------
>
> Handling the OS updates is pretty easy... Is there any equally easy way
> to keep a particular set of ports updated automatically? I'd like to
> avoid having to do a "make deinstall; make install" all the time...
I've been using CVSup for privisioning for a couple of years. That
can be pretty handy...
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