Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2003 10:47:53 -0800 From: "Lee Mx" <lee_ver_mx@hotmail.com> To: freebsd@akruijff.dds.nl Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Changing a company from 100% Windows to 100% FreeBSD. Message-ID: <Sea2-F3022adbJh3lrG000226e1@hotmail.com>
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>From: Alex de Kruijff <freebsd@akruijff.dds.nl> >To: Lee Mx <lee_ver_mx@hotmail.com> >CC: questions@freebsd.org >Subject: Re: Changing a company from 100% Windows to 100% FreeBSD. >Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2003 19:32:23 +0100 > >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. Yes, Alex, I think you are probably right. Although the LAN is always a temptation :-). > > > > > 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 Looks interesting. It's not exactly what I had in mind but worth a read for sure. >you enterprise cluster. Its quite a bit of work to setup at first and >saves you lots of work later. Sounds like most everything that we do ;-) > > > 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. I've thought about that but I thinking of automating the portupgrade process rather than having to find all the --exclude's for rsync but that could surely change. Thanks for your suggestions and the link. ed > >-- >Alex > >Articles based on solutions that I use: >http://www.kruijff.org/alex/index.php?dir=docs/FreeBSD/ >_______________________________________________ >freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list >http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions >To unsubscribe, send any mail to >"freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" _________________________________________________________________ MSN Shopping upgraded for the holidays! Snappier product search... http://shopping.msn.com
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