Hello, We have four SparcStation4 and an Ultra1. Up to now we had Solaris running, the whole System installed on every machine. I added a /usr/local hierarchy on the Ultra server with all the good stuff from GNU, and mounted it as a nfs filesystem under /usr/local on each one of the clients.
Now I want to switch the whole configuration to debian (that I've been running at home on a PC for two years). 1. What would be the preferred way to have this kind of distributed setup with standalone, but thin clients? Is there a standard way to use the debian packaging system to divide installation up into a base system with X that is installed on every machine, and applications that reside on the server only, to be mounted via nfs? 2. How difficult is it, to do this in a heterogeneous network? We might be adding PCs soon, and I would like to have a real uniform network, all running debian, with only one application/file server. Thanks, Nils Ackermann
