William Ballard wrote: > On Wed, Dec 14, 2005 at 10:22:55PM -0500, Marty wrote: > >>*What prompts this remark is an industrial application I heard about, where >>a large number of identically configured systems used "ghost" (or similar >>tool) >>to reinstall a pristine copy of XP each time the systems were booted, i.e. >>at >>least once per day! (True story.) > > > I load a fresh image of XP every single time I use it. It's unthinkably > awful to use it otherwise. > > Tell me about it. Where I go to school, the lab machines are ghosted weekly. I lucked out and managed to get a SUSE 9.3 Pro workstation setup, which I must admit is quite nice. SUSE is very well integrated, but I still prefer Debian by far. I jsut count myself fortunate that they didn't force me to use a WinXP machine. Ugh. -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://familiasanchez.net/~roberto
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