[K12OSN] OT: Apple Imac lab
Les Mikesell
lesmikesell at gmail.com
Mon Mar 2 06:55:18 UTC 2009
Steven Santos wrote:
> Dave,
>
> Stick to your guns on the OO.o for the Macs, as I think that’s the big
> slippery slope.
>
> You volunteer your time adminning the Linux boxes. Adding this lab of Mac's
> will add a significant amount of work to you. What I don't understand is
> why you agreed to take on that extra work.
>
> If I were you, I would drop a few "this is a LOT of work I am not sure I can
> do on a volunteer basis... We may need to look at a support contract for all
> these Macs..."
Macs - a lot of work??? I think you'll have a bit of a credibility
problem with that. Expensive, yes, but...
> If you have a few quotes from Mac shops about supporting
> that lab with comparable uptime to the LTSP system (is that 99.999 or
> 99.9999 uptime...),
You might need some spares to make that number - with either system.
> I think you will find a lot more traction for your side
> of things. Just make sure to spec the quotes correctly so that they have to
> interface seamlessly with the existing servers, have the ability to netboot
> as LTSP/Win workstation, and whatever else you can think of. I strongly
> suspect such a contract will cost many times more than the lab itself.
If you want to use fully-loaded Macs as clients to an LTSP system, the
easy way is to run the NX client with freenx on the server.
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Les Mikesell
lesmikesell at gmail.com
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