Re: [seul-edu] wine testing efforts

[Harry McGregor <micros@azstarnet.com>]

On Wed, 22 May 2002, James Oden wrote:


> I was not saying it wasn't a good tool (its a very nice tool), but its
> not free and when I was using it you had to license it for every machine
> that you cloned (most people to do not stick to the license so strictly,
> but that is how it was worded, and may still be today).

As much as I love Open Source, and Free Software, dealing with Windows
NT/2K SIDs, on an NTFS file system, is not something I would like to
mangle with.

Educational Licesning of ghost is about $15/seat (full), or about $8/seat
upgrade.  Compaired to the man hours saved, it is well worth it, and
actualy quite cheap compaired to things like Novell ZENWorks.

> So its not a
> cheap solution.  I guess all I was really suggesting is that there are
> Open Source tools for replicating linux systems, and it would be very
> worth while to concentrate on building something like Ghost under linux
> that supports dual boot systems and such.  But again, Ghost works _real_
> well, and the multicast feature is awsome...james

If Partimage ever gets the ability to deal with NTFS well (resizeing and
all), and the multicast, it will be an option for Win2K/NT/XP systems (and
dual boots), until then, coming up with a multicast rsync would be really
useful.

		Harry
>

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