[Lias] Linux on the desktop - NO?

[John Simovic]

On Tue, 02 Sep 2003 09:44:46 +1000
ken at etherboot.org (Ken Yap) wrote:

> >The BAD:
> >Seems impossible to create and maintain a standard desktop for users a la Win
> >dows
> >Profiles
> >I get many web browser crashes (java related I think - especially with Galeon
> >) that
> >lock the session and persist beyond a logoff and login. The only solution I h
> >ave
> >found is to delete and re-create the user directory, which is not very satisf
> >actory!
> 
> I found that the number of lock ups caused by the web browser went down
> significantly when I set the cache sizes in the browser to 0 and used
> squid instead as a big shared cache. I'm using firebird.
> 
> >Difficult, if not impossible, to 'map' drives so that users can get data from
> > a
> >range of sources.
> 
> Maybe ask on the LTSP list how other sites deal with the problems you're
> facing?
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