Re: [Ltsp-discuss] is complete migration from MS to linux possible in commericial enviorment??

[Bill C. <bi...@ca...>]

On Tue, 2002-09-24 at 17:01, Gaurav Prasad wrote:
> 
> hi guys,
> 
>      i am working in tech support in a big commercial organization..call center (< 5000 users).....unfornately we are using NT on workstation and servers...............i am sick and tired of NT bcos of frequent crashes and fact NT requires army of support professionals to maintain network.
> 
> I was thinking of migrating fully to linux.....but there r some problem
> 
> 1) We got Vb applications we need 2 run at clients

unless wine or crossover can run the vb apps they would have to be
rewritten.  As a former vb guy myself, Kylix/Delphi has become my
language of choice.

> 2)GUI should be better or aleast like NT

KDE is very windoze like, gnome is very close, and gnome2 will be very
nice (when stable)

> 3)MUST have near 100% uptime 

even without clustering or failover, I have found linux and ltsp to be
very stable.  And even when something goes wrong, a never have to
reboot, just kill a process here, and restart and daemon their.

> 4)Speed should be fast

properly planed network and servers, users will never know they are
using ltsp.