If you don't mind doing a little bit of administration on your machines than your best solution would be NIS/NFS/AMD. I have a network of linux that one of the filetrees (software) is distributed across half of the network and no one (and without checking, even me) knows what is really located where.
I use samba @work (a must when you have both linux and NTs). @home for my small network (actually 9 computers on 2 people ain't that low) which serves me and my griddy little brother, mainly for our little new company. Now if I could only find one more place where I can install it... Suggestions are welcome.
My first distribution I downloaded was MCC interim 1+ (does anyone remember that one?), back in the summer of 1994 (now why do I feel old all of a sudden?). Then came out Slackware and I was stupid enough to download it in ascii mode (on a 2400 modem for a whole day):) Been using ever since, my current machines use Slackware 3.4, highly patched to include just about all the latest packages available. I even migrated the sysem to glibc2 and recompiled the whole system to support it. Yes it took me a weekend to do it, but what a ride! What an experience! Learned so much I didn't even think possible. As my day to day job i administrate RedHat machines (someone elses decision). So you can look at it as my profession is RedHat and Slackware is my hobby:)
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If you don't mind doing a little bit of administration on your machines than your best solution would be NIS/NFS/AMD. I have a network of linux that one of the filetrees (software) is distributed across half of the network and no one (and without checking, even me) knows what is really located where.
I agree that I should ask for a raise. I even :(
showed this to my boss. His response: So what...
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I use samba @work (a must when you have both linux and NTs). @home for my small network (actually 9 computers on 2 people ain't that low) which serves me and my griddy little brother, mainly for our little new company. Now if I could only find one more place where I can install it... Suggestions are welcome.
My first distribution I downloaded was MCC interim 1+ (does anyone remember that one?), back in the summer of 1994 (now why do I feel old all of a sudden?). Then came out Slackware and I was stupid enough to download it in ascii mode (on a 2400 modem for a whole day) :) Been using ever since, my current machines use Slackware 3.4, highly patched to include just about all the latest packages available. I even migrated the sysem to glibc2 and recompiled the whole system to support it. Yes it took me a weekend to do it, but what a ride! What an experience! Learned so much I didn't even think possible. As my day to day job i administrate RedHat machines (someone elses decision). So you can look at it as my profession is RedHat and Slackware is my hobby :)