Any Linux experts?
deicist
Manchester, UK
Just wondering if this is possible at all....
At the moment the company I work for uses a thin client system (citrix), I've recently started to replace the win98 machines running the citrix client with machines running Thinstation, which is a linux distro that boots from CD and runs the citrix client. All well & good so far.... the only problem is we also use an internet testing system called 'Skills arena' which requires Internet explorer, Authorware (IE plugin) and the ability to run activeX controls. At the moment we use a single win98 machine in each branch, which runs IE locally (not over the thin client system) to run this testing suite. What I would like to do is have a machine that boots from CD (Knoppix) and runs IE (through WINE?) to run this internet application. My basic goal is to have an office made up entirely of stateless Linux boxes, with no hard drives required at all. Now:
1) is this possible? the only problem I think I'll have is running IE on wine and getting authorware player and the active x control to work properly. If I can solve that problem it should be good to go though.
2) How difficult would it be for a complete linux noob such as myself? Basically I want to end up with a CD that I can just boot from and already contains WINE (which knoppix already has I think) IE and authorware.... I'm guessing I have to have a linux box to compile the packages on, or is there a way I can get knoppix to look somewhere for extra packages (like a server possibly)?
Cheers for any help anyone can give
At the moment the company I work for uses a thin client system (citrix), I've recently started to replace the win98 machines running the citrix client with machines running Thinstation, which is a linux distro that boots from CD and runs the citrix client. All well & good so far.... the only problem is we also use an internet testing system called 'Skills arena' which requires Internet explorer, Authorware (IE plugin) and the ability to run activeX controls. At the moment we use a single win98 machine in each branch, which runs IE locally (not over the thin client system) to run this testing suite. What I would like to do is have a machine that boots from CD (Knoppix) and runs IE (through WINE?) to run this internet application. My basic goal is to have an office made up entirely of stateless Linux boxes, with no hard drives required at all. Now:
1) is this possible? the only problem I think I'll have is running IE on wine and getting authorware player and the active x control to work properly. If I can solve that problem it should be good to go though.
2) How difficult would it be for a complete linux noob such as myself? Basically I want to end up with a CD that I can just boot from and already contains WINE (which knoppix already has I think) IE and authorware.... I'm guessing I have to have a linux box to compile the packages on, or is there a way I can get knoppix to look somewhere for extra packages (like a server possibly)?
Cheers for any help anyone can give
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I'm not that familiar with knoppix, but I'm pretty sure there's a way to make custom live CDs if you've got knoppix running on a computer already.
I would reccomend becoming more familiar with linux before (if) you try to deploy this en masse.
http://www.winehq.com/
they got tutorials to help you install internet explorer form wine.
In theory anyway, I don't have any machines with fat32 drives in them at home, so it'll have to wait til tomorrow before I can actually test this, but in theory it looks good.
Wait, it can write NTFS? Is that new?
(sorry to divert the topic)
What captive NTFS does is it uses the Windows NTFS driver to write to NTFS so its very handy to dual boot, or you can just copy the NTFS driver off of a friends XP installation or something. But yes, you can easily write to NTFS
Knoppix comes with Captive NTFS on the disk. (incase you are wondering)