[ale] Cygwin Or...?

[Keith R. Watson]

At 10:21 PM 2/25/2003 +0000, hbbs at attbi.com wrote:
>Suppose I want to deploy a Linux GUI app (let's say MrProject, an X11/Gnome
>app) and my user base is already set up on Win2K.  What are my rollout 
>options
>given that I must retain the Win2K clients?
>
>I've been looking at Cygwin and it seems that it might be a piece of the
>puzzle; at the moment, though, I am willing to entertain either running 
>the app
>centrally or independently on each client machine.  I want to minimize the
>impact at the desktop level (i.e., dropping a desktop icon on everyone's 
>screen
>is preferable to performing an app install at every client machine).
>
>Assume furthermore that I am not interested in buying X server software for
>each client and that each user should be able to run an independent 
>instance of
>the app (as opposed to several people contending for the same instance).
>
>- Jeff

Jeff,

I read the other responses and was surprised that no one had considered 
VMware. This would unfortunately involve installing an application (VMware) 
on each machine which I know you were trying to avoid. The upside is that 
you could then deploy a Linux vm with MrProject to all the W2K machines via 
a file copy. This would also solve your UNIX/W2K compatibility problem. The 
other problem is that VMware is not exactly inexpensive.

keith
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Keith R. Watson                        GTRI/ITD
Systems Support Specialist III         Georgia Tech Research Institute
keith.watson at gtri.gatech.edu           Atlanta, GA  30332-0816
404-894-0836

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