[svlug] Linux and a consistant environment.

[Jeffrey Siegal]

James Sparenberg wrote:
>    Take for example a business where you have 500 desktops.  The Company
> has standardized internally on Ygdrasil (Ok an old distro but I don't
> want to start distro wars.) with X etc.  The challenge is to make it so
> that despite the variations in HW (PIII PIV, Athlon, Opteron, NVidia,
> ATI SiS etc.) that the companies Cad Program works exactly the same way
> and displays exactly the same way regardless.  
> 
>    Problems, Questions, Discussions?  Go away?

I don't understand what you're asking.  Are you asking about how to 
install the OS, or are you asking how how to package and distribute the 
application, etc.

One thing to keep in mind on the "limited set of hardware" issue you 
mentioned earlier, is that nothing forces you to use diverse hardware 
with Linux.  The above mentioned business could standardize on a very 
limited set of hardware if it wanted, and still use Linux.  Limited in 
the sense that the business only deploys a small number of 
configurations.  There are a *large* -- basically inifinite -- number of 
configurations out there to choose from, but you certainly don't need to 
deploy them all.