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Where Is The Plug-and-Play Linux Office System?

Posted by timothy on from the entrepreneurial-spirit dept.

cdlu writes "Where oh where is the plug-and-play Linux business computer? Robin Miller asks the question and makes the case for starting a business to sell a self-updating networked Linux system for small business. Any takers?" (NewsForge and Slashdot are both part of OSTG.)

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  1. Read the Article by Gates82 · · Score: 4, Informative

    The author isn't talking about auto updating software or and OS, he's talking about prebuilt Server/Clients for small offices. --> So really, who is hotter? Alley or Alleys sister?

  2. Re:Yes... by Drakonite · · Score: 4, Informative
    And besides not getting used, I haven't heard of problems with windows update.

    While I was still using Windows 2000, shortly before ServicePack3 IIRC, I went to windows update and installed the critical "you must install me now biaatch!" updates. Suddenly my system was running so unbarably slow that it was rendered unusable. After a considerable amount of research the problem was tracked down to one of the critical updates that while fixing a GDI exploit, it caused many systems to slow to a halt. This update is one of the updates which would be automatically installed by anyone with automatic updating enabled.

    This is by far not an isolated occurance, and not as severe as many other problems windows system administrators see on a frequent enough basis that many of them adopt a phylosphy of not updating until absolutely necissary. However, now you can no longer claim to have never heard of windows update problems.

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  3. Re:Yes... by Glamdrlng · · Score: 4, Informative
    To force myself to learn Python, I'm thinking of setting up a Python daemon that will listen for an "administrator" machine that pushes commands that a company's SysAd wants.
    You may wanna check out FanOut and FanTerm. Both programs are used to run commands on multiple boxes via SSH. FanOut does non-interactive commands, and FanTerm pulls up one window for each SSH session. You type commands into the master window then see the results from each machine in the slave windows.

    Combine that with certificate authentication for your SSH logons and you're good to go.
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