Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2003 06:27:25 -0800 From: "Lee Mx" <lee_ver_mx@hotmail.com> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Changing a company from 100% Windows to 100% FreeBSD. Message-ID: <Sea2-F62kFU8i0ShdR700020199@hotmail.com>
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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. 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 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 :-) The only other bumps in the road are programs that can read corel draw files and if it could write them it would be even better but I haven't been able to find any. The last is a viewer for AutoCAD. I've found a couple but have no experience with any of them. Does anyone have a suggestion. Thanks, for you help, Lee _________________________________________________________________ Crave some Miles Davis or Grateful Dead? Your old favorites are always playing on MSN Radio Plus. Trial month free! http://join.msn.com/?page=offers/premiumradio
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