OT: Why Oh Why - Page 4

Thermodyne · #31 July 11th, 2003, 04:22 PM

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Originally posted by minipol:
Java runs fine on linux too. And about the server farm: are you saying that linux isn't that easy to setup thinclients? I thought that was the hole purpose of unix/linux. You have a server and a couple of terminals are connected to that server so people can work on it. I've seen a lot of info on this. There is even software that allows to cluster a number of servers so this would even make it easier.

The farm is 7 Citrix servers. And Citrix is designed to run on MS and serve up MS apps.

PvK · #32 July 11th, 2003, 09:52 PM

My preference list is based on my own needs and experience setting up small LAN's for personal or small office use mainly for game playing and development.

If someone already has experience with an OS and doesn't hate it, then using what they know how to make do what they want will of course be an appealing choice. Personally, I have no reason to want to learn what all I would have to do to get Win 2K Server to not run all sorts of crap I don't want. Even if I believe the incredible claim that there is "one" registry setting which will remove all unwanted crap features from Win 2K Server (which reg key is this?!?! I'm thinking "hmmm... HKEY_CURRENT_CONFIG\System\CurrentControlSet\Contr ol\Class\{4D36E96A-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318}\0666\DontDoBloatCrap), it seems like it'd just be a more expensive Version of Win 2K Pro, for my purposes, and even Win 2K Pro with all patches still has issues with some games and nVidia graphics cards, while bare bones Win 98SE has no such issues and seems to boot and run much faster as long as you don't let lots of annoying apps stuff the registry full of crud.

PvK

minipol · #33 July 12th, 2003, 02:51 AM

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Originally posted by Thermodyne:
The farm is 7 Citrix servers. And Citrix is designed to run on MS and serve up MS apps.

I heard about Citrix but i don't know it. I'll have to check that. So you basically install apps on the citrix servers and then people can connect via a terminal or stripped pc to one of those citrix servers to work?

Thermodyne · #34 July 12th, 2003, 03:04 AM

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Originally posted by minipol:

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Originally posted by Thermodyne:
The farm is 7 Citrix servers. And Citrix is designed to run on MS and serve up MS apps.

I heard about Citrix but i don't know it. I'll have to check that. So you basically install apps on the citrix servers and then people can connect via a terminal or stripped pc to one of those citrix servers to work?

Yep, they send key strokes and get display changes back. Server does the work. Low network load and low client load. The down side is that it likes big iron for servers. We have 5 quads and a pair of dual processor Xeon servers in the farm. They need lot of ram too, each user gets his own block of ram at logon.