From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Nov 17 10:32:25 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E3E0C16A4CE for ; Mon, 17 Nov 2003 10:32:25 -0800 (PST) Received: from smtp07.wxs.nl (smtp07.wxs.nl [195.121.6.39]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B90D443FD7 for ; Mon, 17 Nov 2003 10:32:24 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from akruijff@www.kruijff.org) Received: from kruij557.speed.planet.nl (ipd50a97ba.speed.planet.nl [213.10.151.186])18questions@freebsd.org; Mon, 17 Nov 2003 19:32:23 +0100 (MET) Received: from Alex.lan (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by kruij557.speed.planet.nl (8.12.9p2/8.12.9) with ESMTP id hAHIWOEp002461; Mon, 17 Nov 2003 19:32:24 +0100 (CET envelope-from akruijff@Alex.lan) Received: (from akruijff@localhost) by Alex.lan (8.12.9p2/8.12.9/Submit) id hAHIWNe9002460; Mon, 17 Nov 2003 19:32:23 +0100 (CET envelope-from akruijff) Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2003 19:32:23 +0100 From: Alex de Kruijff In-reply-to: To: Lee Mx Message-id: <20031117183223.GB1458@dds.nl> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i References: cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Changing a company from 100% Windows to 100% FreeBSD. X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2003 18:32:26 -0000 On Mon, Nov 17, 2003 at 06:27:25AM -0800, Lee Mx wrote: > I am switching about 40 desktop's running different versions of > windows over to freebsd. One of the primary requirements is > OpenOffice-1.1 and I've always run it locally on my laptop. > I'm considering running it over the LAN which would mean that > I suppose that I would NFS mount the binary and do the network > install. Could someone who has done this tell me if they > recommend running it on the network or if it would be better to > just install it on each of the 40 machines. This company and > every user, uses Office daily, especially excel. Running it over the network should be posible. It does come at a high performance cost. The local hard disk has a much higher respond rate. Personaly, i would go for the independed workstation. > > Also if anyone has any other suggestions that would simplify > anything in the chain from the initial installation to periodic > upgrading, it would be highly appreciated. I'm not sure if you looking for this, but you may wanna read this: http://www.infrastructures.org/ - Its all about how to effienctly manage you enterprise cluster. Its quite a bit of work to setup at first and saves you lots of work later. > I'm planning on having a central server that will be cvsuping > updated sources and ports daily, making world and portupgrade > -Rruap periodically. I plan to NFS mount /usr/ports and not > have local copies to not have to update them. I'm thinking that > I could then, fairly easily upgrade the other machines by just > installing the packages when needed. It could also serve as a > local repository for updating the operating system or I suppose > that I could also NFS mount /usr/src and /usr/obj and do an > installworld to upgrade, too. Again any opinions, observations > or suggestion are highly appreciated. I've never changed > 100% to FreeBSD before :-) This would mean that you have to manage every workstation manualy. If there all alike you could just configure one and let the other synchonise themselfs. You may wanna have a look at the port rsync. -- Alex Articles based on solutions that I use: http://www.kruijff.org/alex/index.php?dir=docs/FreeBSD/