[ubuntu-my] Ubuntu, diskless

[Raymond Yip]

I am not a technicians and I am not familiar with this Diskless setup. 
But I am curious, why would your friend want to implement this kind of 
setup in a cyber-cafe?

In my opinion, cyber-cafe nowadays are more suitable to be called 
gaming-cafe. If you friend's cyber-cafe's customers are mostly gamers, 
this might not be a suitable setup for him. As far as I know Linux 
doesn't support many games yet, even with WINE there might still be 
flaws. Unless your friend's cyber-cafe are mainly doing 
internet-browsing-service kind of services, this might cause a problem.
(Again thats what I understand about gaming on Linux)

Also, Your friend might not be the only one need to be trained, if this 
setup doesn't support Windows-Linux integration, the customers may be 
forced to use Ubuntu as well. This might scare some of them off. (on the 
flip side...this might attract more users to Ubuntu).

I think a way to implement this is to "pilot" the implementation. Setup 
a few PCs with this kind of setup and learn from there, see how it goes. 
This will be a good chance to learn this kind of implementation if you 
can do so.

Arrr enough with my crap...dinner time.

Raymond

Umarzuki Mochlis wrote:
> A friend asked me on how to implement this kind of setup in a cyber 
> cafe that he works. I never done that kind of stuff before and if I 
> didn't know any better, I'd just give him this link instead: 
> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/DisklessUbuntuHowto
>
> But the problem is, he also needs me to teach him Ubuntu basics which 
> scares me a lot because it'll be hard for a newbie to maintain such a 
> setup without months of system admin experience, IMHO. I'd be glad to 
> help him on understanding GNU+Linux and Ubuntu but regarding this 
> diskless thing, and I could try setup the diskless environment but it 
> could lead to a lot of other stuff. I believe technicians out there 
> know what I mean.
>
> How do I go about this problem?
>
> -- 
> Regards,
>
> Umarzuki Mochlis
> http://gameornot.net
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