ya, that's what we have set up. it does take quite some time, but dividing the total time by the computers getting casted, it's barely any at all... with imagecast that is..
I don't know who you are referring to when you say "we're all malicious," but I was talking about things like W32/Mydoom@MM. It was obviously made with a single reason; that being to attack the SCO website.
If an open souce OS had hundreds of millions of computers connected via the internet and maintained the majority of the marketshare, there would be many malware authors turning their attention towards it and though there could be less problems discovered, it could be just as tragic when a large flaw is found.
I do not like the fact that there are so many problems with Windows being discovered (almost weekly), but there is no fair way to compare it with another OS given the large user base....unless you lockup one thousand monkeys in a room with an equal number of computers running various OS's, then find out which of them haven't lost their minds after 10 years. Yes, a truly slow experiment, but a fair one.
Even using Ghost over a 100mbit network, a full boat imaging of a windows Box usually takes on the order of 20 to 50 minutes depending upon how many applications are included; I can do Linux boxen in 9 minutes from reboot to login.
I must say that those speeds are quite impressive for Ghost. Do you think it was because of the size of the image or something to do with the OS?
Myself along with 4 other people do alot of cloning at our school since software updates keeps us busy and having DeepFreeze on most of them makes it a faster alternative to updating individual machines.
Anyway, we had Ghost running all last year and even with our 100mbit switch, it would take half an hour per desktop to cast the image (WinXP plus a large assortment of software). Well, when we tried to use ImageCast on the same equipment, we were able to cast images in an average of 7 minutes per desktop.
It would be interesting to see what speeds you could accomplish with that same Linux image using ImageCast.
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ya, that's what we have set up. it does take quite some time, but dividing the total time by the computers getting casted, it's barely any at all... with imagecast that is..
I don't know who you are referring to when you say "we're all malicious," but I was talking about things like W32/Mydoom@MM. It was obviously made with a single reason; that being to attack the SCO website.
...unless you lockup one thousand monkeys in a room with an equal number of computers running various OS's, then find out which of them haven't lost their minds after 10 years. Yes, a truly slow experiment, but a fair one.
If an open souce OS had hundreds of millions of computers connected via the internet and maintained the majority of the marketshare, there would be many malware authors turning their attention towards it and though there could be less problems discovered, it could be just as tragic when a large flaw is found.
I do not like the fact that there are so many problems with Windows being discovered (almost weekly), but there is no fair way to compare it with another OS given the large user base.
Even using Ghost over a 100mbit network, a full boat imaging of a windows Box usually takes on the order of 20 to 50 minutes depending upon how many applications are included; I can do Linux boxen in 9 minutes from reboot to login. I must say that those speeds are quite impressive for Ghost. Do you think it was because of the size of the image or something to do with the OS? Myself along with 4 other people do alot of cloning at our school since software updates keeps us busy and having DeepFreeze on most of them makes it a faster alternative to updating individual machines. Anyway, we had Ghost running all last year and even with our 100mbit switch, it would take half an hour per desktop to cast the image (WinXP plus a large assortment of software). Well, when we tried to use ImageCast on the same equipment, we were able to cast images in an average of 7 minutes per desktop. It would be interesting to see what speeds you could accomplish with that same Linux image using ImageCast.