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

[Greg Orange]

Presentation on LTSP? I'm interested. I think I read somewhere that it was on 
Monday 12th, ie I've missed it ): Any paraphernalia that went with the 
presentation that I could get my hands on?

Cheers,
Greg.

Quoting Bret Busby <bret at busby.net>:

> 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
> ..............
> 
> "So once you do know what the question actually is, 
>  you'll know what the answer means."
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>  - Douglas Adams, 1988
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Greg Orange
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