Hi, No offense taken :-) And I will report back (I expect by Monday) on how the alternate ltsp install goes. In the meanwhile, I have removed the packages that Gavin suggested and also removed the splash screens. That has work just fine. I have had our sales team (six members) on the modified Edubuntu ltsp (at first only lightly moded, now as per Gavin suggestions) for two weeks now and that is going very well. The system is proving stable and I have had few complaints. Indeed I doubt that some of them have eve noticed the difference as I have had the company on Open Office and other  open source software for about a year now. Regards, Paul <div>On 1/19/07, Gavin McCullagh <<a href="mailto:gmccullagh@gmail.com">gmccullagh@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> Hi, On Thu, 18 Jan 2007, Scott Ledyard wrote: > BTW, I wouldn't be too concerned about the "basic knowledge" comments. I've > been working to figure this LTSP stuff, too and there's not much resource > material available. O'Reilly needs to crank out an LTSP / MueCow admin book! I think some misunderstanding has happened here caused both by my misinterpretation and in how I phrased have things. I suggested removing several specific packages and gave the specific package names.  The reply (or so I thought) was to ask how to go about removing the packages.  The thought of someone rolling out an ltsp system to a business environment without knowledge of the package manager seemed a little worrying so I suggested that perhaps it would be a good idea to look over some of that more basic stuff first. Sorry Paul, it wasn't at all my intention to get at you or question your knowledge or experience. Gavin PS the comment about the lack of clear documentation for some LTSP stuff is merited.  I presume it is partially due to how new the LTSP v5 system is -- I think edubuntu are the first to use it?  I'm currently in the middle of massaging ubuntu/ltsp5 to run a set of bootable servers for our network testbed.  I must try and write the stuff up as I'm figuring it out.  it must be said it's a very nice flexible system. -- edubuntu-users mailing list <a href="mailto:edubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com">edubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com</a> Modify settings or unsubscribe at: <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/edubuntu-users"> https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/edubuntu-users</a> </blockquote></div>