Marcus Meissner wrote
In the end all necessary software should be covered by SLES+SLED+SDK. I think xv is not (as your example).
Well, SLED is the keyword, we don't have licenses for it. I'm not sure about the licence modell, but I assume it could be quite expensive for some hundred clients? Without SLED, a lot is missing of course...
I would suggest switching to some kind of solution where you export chrooted SUSE Linux versions ... Should not be that hard, right?
That's the way Debian used to offer their diskless solutions. Actually it isn't very nice: You always have to maintain two systems, you need a special client that can mount the system rw for things that can't be done with chroot on the server etc. It's a lot easier to let the server export its own root (you would be amazed how few file really differ between a server and a client :-)). However, that's a different story... Shortening the SLES release cycle would be good thing anyway, because thinks like mysql etc. that are served by our sles servers require a more frequent update than a two-year-cycle, so we always recompile some stuff after about one year :-( cu, Frank -- Dipl.-Inform. Frank Steiner Web: http://www.bio.ifi.lmu.de/~steiner/ Lehrstuhl f. Bioinformatik Mail: http://www.bio.ifi.lmu.de/~steiner/m/ LMU, Amalienstr. 17 Phone: +49 89 2180-4049 80333 Muenchen, Germany Fax: +49 89 2180-99-4049 * Rekursion kann man erst verstehen, wenn man Rekursion verstanden hat. *