On Tue, 2003-04-08 at 01:08, Tom Allison wrote: > Non trivial configuration for starts.. > > LTSP works very well with Debian. > > I have no ideas about a virtual machine. > > I can only suggest that you control your different applications through the > use of a potentially extensive /etc/apt/preferences file. This will allow > you to select different branches (stable/testing/unstable) for different > applications or application-families (kde, gnome, apache) in addition to some > interesting defaults. > > I suggest that before you create something like a virtual system, you > seriously read up on apt_preferences and determine if that will cover things > for you. > > I think it might. That was my second option. I was just concerned that this might not work so well with the gcc-3.2 transition messing with packages from the stable branch. I might actually just port the packages from woody to work with g++-3.2 or start from testing since I am not going to be so concerned with security. All the users are trusted (more importantly, they are windoze users who dont have a clue what a buffer means) Thanks for that though. I would like to thank John as well for the RAM recommendation. I will increase it especially once they start using more than one client. Shri -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Shri Shrikumar U R Byte Solutions I.T. Consultant Edinburgh, Scotland Tel: 0845 644 4745 Email: shri@urbyte.com Web: www.urbyte.com
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