Experiences with KDE-CVS at LinuxWorldExpo

[David F. Newman]

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On Sunday 03 November 2002 09:08 am, Eva Brucherseifer wrote:
>
> Suse's new autoinstall system is great, but only works for the initial
> installation of a system. What we are talking here about is rather the
> continuous maintanance of user configurations and program setup, preferably
> stored in a database (ldap is actually not the right system for that). For
> these systems you usually have so called push and pull configuration. The
> first one changes the configuration on the users system immidiately the
> other one e.g. at startup of the users desktop.
>

One snag that I could foresee in a configuration database / management
console would be if the various workstations did not all run the same
version of KDE.  I personally run into various problems because my 
home directory is NFS mounted and one machine might have the 
latest KDE in CVS installed, and another might be running the last
stable release, while yet another might be running something older.
Problems range from apps crashing to the entire desktop bombing
and kicking me back to the login screen.  The solution invariably
is to remove ~/.kde and to start over.  I can put up with it, but a
userbase in the 1000s might not.

- -Dave


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