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Z.E.N. Clone for Linux?

Posted by Cliff on from the does-this-exist? dept.

mwknight asks: "The school district where I work has servers that were patched together with different versions of Novell and NT over the past few years. Management is ready to start over and re-design our network from scratch using Novell 5 servers and Win95/98 clients. I would rather see us go with Linux for the servers, but my biggest opposition is Novell's Z.E.N. Works. Is there a Linux program that behaves similar to ZEN? Mainly something that can remote update software to Win95 boxes? "

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  1. PC-Rdist by 198348726583297634 · · Score: 3
    PC-Rdist is the way to go. At my college we're sort of using it as a replacement to ZEN. ZEN is notoriously flaky, too.

    PC-Rdist can manage the filesystems of 95/98/NT, as well as the registries. The way it works, you store an image on the server, that contains the filesystem and registry exactly how you want it, and then you have the workstations synchronize to that image. Since it's just file-sharing based, linux+smb will do the job.

    Pyzzo software makes PC-Rdist.