[wplug] Corporate Desktops

[Carl Trusiak]

Actually except for the Win2K domain browsing/sharing JDS 2.0 does all these 
things (It may do the Win2K stuff using Samba, I'm not sure)

Remote Management feature was the big addition from 1.0 to 2.0


>From: "Chris" <vze2f6h6 at verizon.net>
>Reply-To: General user list <wplug at wplug.org>
>To: "'General user list'" <wplug at wplug.org>
>Subject: RE: [wplug] Corporate Desktops
>Date: Thu, 3 Jun 2004 10:05:08 -0400
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: wplug-bounces+vze2f6h6=verizon.net at wplug.org
> > [mailto:wplug-bounces+vze2f6h6=verizon.net at wplug.org] On
> > Behalf Of Vanco, Don
> > Sent: Thursday, June 03, 2004 9:28 AM
> > To: General user list
> > Subject: RE: [wplug] Corporate Desktops
> > wplug-bounces+don.vanco=agilysys.com at wplug.org wrote:
> > > Sometime in June Vanco, Don assaulted the keyboard and produced:
> > >
> > >
> > > I've mucked around with this for a while. Since the EOL of
> > Redhat 9,
> > > I've been trying to come up with a solution to replace our Redhat 9
> > > boxes. Our needs are a little different. We're an academic research
> > > group and our needs primarily involve numerical simulations and
> > > optimization (Matlab, C, CPLEX, GAMS, Mathematica, etc.).
> > Of course,
> > > we also need the standard stuff (web browser, LaTeX, editors,
> > > compilers, etc).
> > >
> > 	The availability of an upgrade doesn't necessarily mean
> > you have to use it.  Honestly, the customers that I deal with
> > that match your profile usually "set it and forget it" when
> > it comes to the distro they use (as opposed to following a
> > frequent update schedule)
> >
> > > Also, try as I may, I havnt
> > > found a very good way to make Debian user friendly,
> > Knoppix?
> >
> > > and I
> > > don't want to monkey around with each individual computer to
> > > get the video, sound, automount, and all the other happiness
> > > working. Fedora does a good job of detecting all of this stuff.
> >
>
>Well, my basic needs are:
>
>1. Ability to open/save/modify MS Office Docs.
>2. Interact with our MS Exchange server
>3. Basic we surfing
>4. Easy Install/setup (auto install big plus, ie Kickstart type)
>5. Remote management/maintenance
>6. Good hardware detection
>7. Network Printing
>8. Win2k domain browsing/sharing
>9. Clean default GUI
>10. Ability to edit/create/view PDFs
>11. Good performance
>
>Now I know that a number of these aren't really distro specific and can
>be achieved with software like OpenOffice for 1.  However, I am looking
>more at default installs.  I don't want to have to install additional
>packages on every machine.  I know that can be scripted and all that,
>but I am going to look at it from an ease of installation and someone
>relatively new to Linux.
>
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