[plug] Monday's presentation: prelude, precis, prizes, petitions

[Bret Busby]

On Sun, 11 Aug 2002, Leon Brooks wrote:

> Resent-From: plug at plug.linux.org.au
> 
> PRELUDE
> 
> This is a short blurb about Monday's presentation for those who have no idea 
> what LTSP is... you can ask questions of me both at the meal before the 
> presentation and often afterwards as well. Keep me supplied with hot 
> chocolate and baklava/ladyfingers and I'll keep talking. (-:
> 
> Willing hands will be wanted before and after to help carry 5 boxes in and out 
> from/to the van.
> 
> PRECIS
> 
> LTSP, the Linux Terminal Server Project, is a system for running many 
> underpowered `thin client' workstations from one (or a few) more powerful 
> servers. There are a couple of different ways of going about this, involving 
> different hardware/performance balances, and two of them will be demonstrated 
> simultaneously on the night.
> 
> You will also, Deo volente, see a Win4Lin session running Windows 98SE on a 
> workstation. Win4Lin allows you to run Windows software in an isolated and 
> cut-off-at-the-knees Windows session under Linux. Win4Lin is so efficient 
> that in many cases the applications will run *faster* under Win4Lin under 
> Linux than natively. If you Windows session dies (as they do), one click and 
> five seconds later you're away again.
> 
> 

With Win4Lin being present and running, would WINE be running also?

-- 
Bret Busby
Armadale
West Australia
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