First post from Linux

[Mill]

Finally decided to get rid of XP so now I am posting from Redhat 7.3. Just working on getting all my packages and updates right now and getting everything configured. I should have switched a LONG time ago.

Evan

 

[SuperSix]

I'll give you 2 days, you'll be reloading XP.

 

[Electrode]

I hope you decide to stick with it. If you can't figure something out, ask in the OS forum and someone (maybe even me) will try to answer it.

 

[Ameesh]

Originally posted by: SuperSix
I'll give you 2 days, you'll be reloading XP.

i think hes too stubborn for it to be that quick.

 

[Martin]

congrats, now its time to get MOSFET's Liquid theme

linky


and if you think there are no games for linux, you are sorely mistaken

 

[Dragnov]

I installed it and now it just sits there.

 

[FoBoT]

why didn't you go for 8.0?

8.0 includes rdesktop
its a terminal server client for Windows 2000 server terminal server
so if you have a windows 2000 server, you can terminal serve from linux into your W2K server and use Internet Explorer!

i haven't tried playing any games through it yet, but if you hit a web site that mozilla doesn't like , it is handy

 

[mpitts]

I wonder why you didn't go with 8.0 too? A very nice and polished desktop.

 

[Ameesh]

Originally posted by: Electrode
I hope you decide to stick with it. If you can't figure something out, ask in the OS forum and someone (maybe even me) will try to answer it.

how do you distribute group policy to clients?

 

[Mill]

A friend had the 7.3 cds. I installed from 7.3 and will go to 8.0 after I learn things completely on this box.

 

[Mill]

Originally posted by: Ameesh

Originally posted by: Electrode
I hope you decide to stick with it. If you can't figure something out, ask in the OS forum and someone (maybe even me) will try to answer it.

how do you distribute group policy to clients?

My friend said to tell you LDAP.

 

[Staples]

RH8 has the buggies installer of any distro I have used in a long time however the new Gnome desktop is one step closer to Window's friendliness. None of their desktops have accoplished the Windows look and feel yet.

 

[ElFenix]

Originally posted by: Staples
RH8 has the buggies installer of any distro I have used in a long time however the new Gnome desktop is one step closer to Window's friendliness. None of their desktops have accoplished the Windows look and feel yet.

why would you want some arbitrarily designed look and feel with little thought toward logic and usage and more to hiding people's files?

 

[Zugzwang152]

mandrake 9.0 all da way

 

[Hyperblaze]

Originally posted by: MartyTheManiak
congrats, now its time to get MOSFET's Liquid theme

linky


and if you think there are no games for linux, you are sorely mistaken

You got Kde 3.1 to work with Mandrake 9.0???

I had some missing libraries and too busy to look for em. Mind sharing?

 

[Ameesh]

Originally posted by: Millennium

Originally posted by: Ameesh

Originally posted by: Electrode
I hope you decide to stick with it. If you can't figure something out, ask in the OS forum and someone (maybe even me) will try to answer it.

how do you distribute group policy to clients?

My friend said to tell you LDAP.

tell your friend LDAP is a protocol not a program or a service. what program or service on linux can distribute it on clients and clients can poll for updates.

 

[Electrode]

Originally posted by: Ameesh
tell your friend LDAP is a protocol not a program or a service. what program or service on linux can distribute it on clients and clients can poll for updates.

Any client application that would have a use for LDAP can handle it by itself. slapd can be used to distribule LDAP directory info.

Now go troll somewhere else. :|

 

[Descartes]

Originally posted by: Electrode

Originally posted by: Ameesh
tell your friend LDAP is a protocol not a program or a service. what program or service on linux can distribute it on clients and clients can poll for updates.

Any client application that would have a use for LDAP can handle it by itself. slapd can be used to distribule LDAP directory info.

Now go troll somewhere else. :|

I think perhaps he was talking about how you can push software updates/etc to the client using GPO automatically, facilities that are not inherent in LDAP nor available (at least not that I'm aware) for *nix platforms.

 

[Electrode]

Originally posted by: Descartes
I think perhaps he was talking about how you can push software updates/etc to the client using GPO automatically, facilities that are not inherent in LDAP nor available (at least not that I'm aware) for *nix platforms.

In most *NIX environments, applications are either run remotely using SSH, remote X, and the like, or loaded off of an NFS share and executed locally. Either way, the software is installed at a central location (be it one server or a cluster) and updates are applied directly to it, and the update becomes effective on the clients the next time the app is run. No need to jump through hoops like you need to for Windows clients, which always require at least some part of the application to physically exist on each and every workstation.

Accept it Ameesh: Windows gets its ass handed to it in the networked computing environment. You would have been better attacking something home desktop-related. For that matter, why do you even have to troll? Fine, you love Windows. No need to attack everyone who wants to try something different.

 

[MainFramed]

Linux Is Fun

 

[Descartes]

Originally posted by: Electrode

Originally posted by: Descartes
I think perhaps he was talking about how you can push software updates/etc to the client using GPO automatically, facilities that are not inherent in LDAP nor available (at least not that I'm aware) for *nix platforms.

In most *NIX environments, applications are either run remotely using SSH, remote X, and the like, or loaded off of an NFS share and executed locally. Either way, the software is installed at a central location (be it one server or a cluster) and updates are applied directly to it, and the update becomes effective on the clients the next time the app is run. No need to jump through hoops like you need to for Windows clients, which always require at least some part of the application to physically exist on each and every workstation.

Accept it Ameesh: Windows gets its ass handed to it in the networked computing environment. You would have been better attacking something home desktop-related. For that matter, why do you even have to troll? Fine, you love Windows. No need to attack everyone who wants to try something different.

I'm very familiar with *nix, thanks, I was simply offering a better idea of what (I thought) he meant.

Most of our clients access their backoffice through an ANSI SCO emulator to a SCO OpenServer 5 box, but they still do so from a Windows box . There is no desktop platform as pervasive as Windows, therefore, GPO is extremely important to me when deploying thin, or even fat, client applications. There are better, more centralized deployment models w/ .NET (dynamic loading of assemblies from a url, etc.), but the desktop will no sooner go away than Linux...

 

[Martin]

Originally posted by: Jero

Originally posted by: MartyTheManiak
congrats, now its time to get MOSFET's Liquid theme

linky


and if you think there are no games for linux, you are sorely mistaken

You got Kde 3.1 to work with Mandrake 9.0???

I had some missing libraries and too busy to look for em. Mind sharing?

that's not 3.1, its the KDE that came with mandrake 9.

 

[NokiaDude]

Yeah, I tried linux. I installed it and it was okay, except some things didn't like to work. Later that night I found myself formatting my HDD and reinstalling WinXP Pro.

 

[SuperSix]

Originally posted by: NokiaDude
Yeah, I tried linux. I installed it and it was okay, except some things didn't like to work. Later that night I found myself formatting my HDD and reinstalling WinXP Pro.

Same thing here.. I installed it, got it working.. Posted here, and then realized I had no use for it. I have a router, didn't need a server, I occasionally play games, and had a lot of software and files in various MS formats..

 

[Ameesh]

Originally posted by: Electrode

Originally posted by: Descartes
I think perhaps he was talking about how you can push software updates/etc to the client using GPO automatically, facilities that are not inherent in LDAP nor available (at least not that I'm aware) for *nix platforms.

In most *NIX environments, applications are either run remotely using SSH, remote X, and the like, or loaded off of an NFS share and executed locally. Either way, the software is installed at a central location (be it one server or a cluster) and updates are applied directly to it, and the update becomes effective on the clients the next time the app is run. No need to jump through hoops like you need to for Windows clients, which always require at least some part of the application to physically exist on each and every workstation.

Accept it Ameesh: Windows gets its ass handed to it in the networked computing environment. You would have been better attacking something home desktop-related. For that matter, why do you even have to troll? Fine, you love Windows. No need to attack everyone who wants to try something different.

what if you wanted ohh i dont know reset everyones password who worked in a paticular building? or maybe change all the computers in the accounting department to have a passworded screen saver rather then an unpassworded one. Or how about something like anyone in a certain child domain has to send all their network traffic encrypted as well as authenticated but everyone else just has to authenticate.