From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Sep 21 11:28:02 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA29253 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Mon, 21 Sep 1998 11:28:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ifi.uio.no (ifi.uio.no [129.240.64.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA29206 for ; Mon, 21 Sep 1998 11:27:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dag-erli@ifi.uio.no) Received: from skejdbrimir.ifi.uio.no (2602@skejdbrimir.ifi.uio.no [129.240.65.2]) by ifi.uio.no (8.8.8/8.8.7/ifi0.2) with SMTP id UAA23812; Mon, 21 Sep 1998 20:27:12 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from localhost (dag-erli@localhost) by skejdbrimir.ifi.uio.no ; Mon, 21 Sep 1998 18:27:08 GMT Mime-Version: 1.0 To: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: sef@kithrup.com Subject: Re: Network Computers References: Mike Smith's message of "Mon, 21 Sep 1998 01:21:18 -0700" <199809211723.KAA17886@kithrup.com> Organization: University of Oslo, Department of Informatics X-url: http://www.stud.ifi.uio.no/~dag-erli/ X-other-addresses: 'finger dag-erli@ifi.uio.no' for a list X-disclaimer-1: The views expressed in this article are mine alone, and do X-disclaimer-2: not necessarily coincide with those of any organisation or X-disclaimer-3: company with which I am or have been affiliated. X-Stop-Spam: http://www.cauce.org/ From: dag-erli@ifi.uio.no (Dag-Erling C. =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sm=F8rgrav?= ) Date: 21 Sep 1998 20:27:05 +0200 In-Reply-To: dag-erli@ifi.uio.no's message of "21 Sep 1998 20:15:09 +0200" Message-ID: Lines: 20 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.5/Emacs 19.34 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by hub.freebsd.org id LAA29226 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org dag-erli@ifi.uio.no (Dag-Erling C. Smørgrav ) writes: > Sean Eric Fagan 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? On second thought, I take this question back :) > 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