Re: When is a Windows network not a Windows network

Can't a Linux box have multiple users attached, through X Windows or
through terminals? So all you need is an X Windows client, like VNC or
Exceed or ?

At 06:37 PM 5/13/02 -0500, you wrote:
>At 09:51 05/13/2002, Rob Berendt wrote:
>>And is there a linux citrix client?
>
>Obviously, not at this point, but have you tried Linux lately? I'm a
>novice, but I recently installed a Red Hat 7.2 distribution, and was amazed
>to see how well it all hangs together. Maybe you still need to be a bit of
>a propeller head, but it's a LOT better than it was just a year or so ago.
>The binary update packages (Up2Date) are fantastic. They're at least as
>reliable as Windows update, and probably more so. KDE is pretty slick too.
>The only thing I couldn't really get to work acceptably was Star Office. It
>just isn't compatible enough with MS Office to handle my needs. If it were,
>I'd have been sorely tempted to junk my desktop Win box all together. Maybe
>Linux will become competitive with Windows at some point, and maybe it
>won't. It seems like a pretty darn solid OS to me though, and as a file
>server for a small Windows network, a web server or a firewall it's
>outstanding right now.
>
>
>Pete Hall
>pbhall@ameritech.net
>http://www.ameritech.net/users/pbhall/index.html
>
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