Date: 21 Sep 1998 20:15:09 +0200 From: dag-erli@ifi.uio.no (Dag-Erling C. =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sm=F8rgrav?= ) To: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Network Computers Message-ID: <xzp1zp549jm.fsf@skejdbrimir.ifi.uio.no> In-Reply-To: Sean Eric Fagan's message of "Mon, 21 Sep 1998 10:23:20 -0700 (PDT)" References: Mike Smith's message of "Mon, 21 Sep 1998 01:21:18 -0700" <199809211723.KAA17886@kithrup.com>
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Sean Eric Fagan <sef@kithrup.com> writes: > But the step above that -- which hasn't started to materialize, and I am > afraid it may be abandoned -- would be something that is essentially a normal > computer (PC, Mac, unix system, whatever) which periodically checked the > "central server," and, if there was some new versions of the software there, > would pick those up and install them. (There are a bunch of things this > requires which I am just going to ignore for the moment.) Umm, exactly how long did you say you've you been using Unix? I can think of a bunch of different ways to achieve that with plain ol' Unix workstations. Slap KDE on top and you're on your way. DES -- Dag-Erling Smørgrav - dag-erli@ifi.uio.no To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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