Picking Your Lightweight Linux Desktop (eWeek) [LWN.net]

eWeek looks at a the thin client approach to lightweight Linux desktops. "[L]et's say you want more control over your desktops. In that case, what you want is a Linux-based, thin-client approach. If that's you, you can also put together your own Linux thin-client solution with LTSP (Linux Terminal Server Project)."

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LTSP

Posted Jul 17, 2004 0:22 UTC (Sat) by ringerc (subscriber, #3071) [Link] (1 responses)

For users with basic needs, I can't recommend LTSP enough. It's such a
fuss free, "just works" solution to running thin clients.

Now, if only the client applications like OpenOffice and Mozilla had
better support for central configuration management such as global
defaults and overrides for settings. We do pretty well here with our suite
of client software, but some more management features would be incredibly
helpful.

Global defaults in Mozilla

Posted Jul 19, 2004 9:32 UTC (Mon) by angdraug (subscriber, #7487) [Link]

In Debian, Mozilla is perfectly capable in using global defaults from /etc/mozilla/ and /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/, and override those from $HOME/.mozilla/default/*/prefs.js. I assume other distributions build Mozilla this way, too. Isn't that what you want?