>> An additional disadvantage of the LTSP solution: since it harkens back
>> to
>> the mainframe-style network, it brings back the problem of single/few
>> point(s) of failure. If for some reason the servers go down, every thin
>> client becomes helpless.
>
> Introducing a clustered environment with redundant servers/access points
> would help resolve some of the single point of failure problems.
>
> http://www.linuxvirtualserver.org/ and http://www.linux-ha.org/ would be
> a good start.
Definitely, or perhaps user-mode linux. No administrator would *really*
leave his/her whole network with a single point of failure, but the setup
of this kind of network makes it more of an issue than it might otherwise
be.
Levi
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