[ubuntu-uk] Survey

[Harry Rickards]

On 21 Apr 2009, at 22:00, Durgahee Mohammad Nazeem <durgaheen0 at hotmail.co.uk 
 > wrote:

> Hi Guys,
>            I am doing a server on Ubuntu server and desktop. I am  
> looking for newspapers article nad companies who has adopted this  
> wonderful operating system. I am even looking to conduct some  
> interviews. If you guys can point me in the right direction, I will  
> be very grateful.
>                                Thanks in advance.
They aren't strictly a bussines, but Uckfield Community Technology  
College (UCTC) use Ubuntu Server 8.04 (LTS). I don't know whether  
they'd be willing to give you more details (website is http://www.uctc.e-sussex.sch.uk 
), but I can give you a brief overiew of how they use it:

There's a network of hand-built thinclients (ITX), which have no HD or  
CD drive, they boot off of PXE. Usually they boot off of PXE to  
Thinstation (which then connects to a Citrix Presentation Server  
running on one of 13 M$ Server 2003 boxes). However, if you press a  
key on startup within 1 second of acquiring an IP address, you get a  
PXE boot menu, which allows you to boot off of Thinstation, Trinity  
Rescue Kit or Ubuntu. Ubuntu works by using LTSP to connect to the  
Ubuntu LTSP server. When you login, passwords are checked via a LDAP  
server running on localhost.

Many thanks
Harry Rickards