[Lias] Linux on the desktop - NO?

[Phil Scarratt]

Simon Bryan wrote:

> Andrew Dorrell said:
> 
>>Simon Bryan wrote:
>>
>>
>>>I feel at the moment that the 'Bad' outweigh the 'Good'. Any opinions? Feel free
>>>to
>>>tell ma I am an idiot and all the listed 'Bad' things are just my ignorance! :-)
>>
>>I hope that kind of attitude is a thing of linux's past - not present.
> 
> That was said in a spirit of fun :-)
> 
> 
> 
>>Perhaps you could post a few more details of your setup.  From Ken's
>>reply I sense you are talking about a LTSP setup?  This is important as
>>I personally have almost never had a browser crash under linux using
> 
> 
> yes it is an LTSP setup using winbind to authenticate against an NT domain.
> The users home directories are created on the fly when they first login using
> pam_mkhomedir.
> Their real home directories are on another Linux server being shared via Samba
> 
> 

Ahhh...this is different to our setup. We are running all servers Linux, 
with SMB acting as an PDC....makes it a little easier with the sharing 
of home directories

> 
>>Having said that, it is my humble opinion that KDE is the only desktop
>>that works well enough to be presented to an arbitrary unqualified
>>audience... but it is relatively fat and doesn't seem to be popular for
>>LTSP.
> 
> I am not sure how to change this, we appear to be busing Gnome/KDE, at least that is
> what the menus say.
> 
> 

We use KDE for LTSP and had no problems (or little anyway). KDE3 seemed 
to be much better than KDE2 also...had a lot of problems with KDE2 that 
disappeared with KDE3.

> 
>>As for standardising the desktop, I don't know quite how things work
>>under LTSP, but with KDE the "standard desktop lives under /usr/share
>>and user specific mods are kept in ~/.kde... which is pretty
>>windows-like... perhaps a bit cleaner IMO.  You can possibly make
>>~/.kde/share read only to prevent customisation.  Take a look at the
>>listing from 'rpm -ql kdebase'
> 
> 
> Hmm, this sounds good. Need to investigate then how to change to the KDE desktop.
> 
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> Simon Bryan
> IT Manager
> OLMC Parramatta
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