Re: [seul-edu] How big a server?

[Doug Loss <drloss@home.com>]

Les Richardson wrote:

On Tue, 13 Nov 2001, Andrew Reid wrote:

> > Have you got an rsync-based system for keeping your windows boxes
> > up-to-date too? I've got that kind of thing happening under
> > Linux/FreeBSD, but not under Windows (using rsync).
>
> Windows and "Up to Date" must be an oxymoron... No, we just ghost them and
> then lock them down using Deep Freeze. Very little required in the way of
> management, other than periodically updating the image, and reghosting. We
> try to get them as close to being a terminal as we can.

I haven't tried this, but this sounds very interesting for the Windows boxes (at
least until you can dump them and put Linux in their places :-)):

http://www.pyzzo.com/pcrdist/

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