Re: Wine and Linux termincal services

[Adam Tauno Williams <adam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>I have a question or a challenge for you guys.
>Does anyone know if there is a way to run Linux Terminal service  and
>Wine on systems.

Yes.

>Here is what I am looking at. I have a lot of computers with old parts
>and do not run well with the high demand for system requirements that
>Windows applications take. If I could run Linux on the machines with
>Linux Terminal Services then run Wine so the Windows applications can
>be running, the I would consider this for some of our older labs.
>I need to run some of the programs written for Windows for the teachers
>and some students. What I would like to do is run Office on the
>terminals. If anyone has some suggestions I would like to hear them.

The only question is whether or not the application will run under WINE.  Wine
displays the apps as X which will work very happily to an LTSP client.  I use
wine,  and all I have are LTSP clients at home, no local displays.   My success
with Wine itself has been very mixed,  but my version is quite old.  

Please let us know how it goes.

You could also try Win4Lin which is a commerical product for running windows
apps, but not quite as nice as Wine (when Wine works).  There is also VMware, 
but that is quite expensive (~$300 per seat).

Anyone want to present on configuring WINE?

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