800 Part V (Web hosting domain) . SUSE Linux in the
800 Part V . SUSE Linux in the Enterprise There are a number of niche commercial distributions in the desktop area, the most important being Xandros and Linspire (formerly known as Lindows, but forced to renounce that name by legal action). Both these companies are staying afloat, but have not made serious inroads into the commercial market for business desktop operating systems. . Xandros is a business desktop version of Linux that has been tailored towards the ability to join a Windows network seamlessly, particularly from the point of view of authentication against the Windows domain, login scripts, and group policy profiles. Xandros offers a KDE desktop with its own look and feel and also a proprietary file manager with some interesting features. . As their original name implies, Linspire s approach was to create a Linux desktop as similar as possible to Microsoft Windows as far as user experience was concerned. Earlier versions bundled CodeWeavers software for running Windows applications, and there was a business model based on an additional cost for the ability to run particular applications. Linspire has more recently made it clear that they are more interested in file compatibility. Among other things they have produced a modified version of OpenOffice.org with changes to make it save files by default in Microsoft formats. As of this writing, they have not released enterprise management tools. Their business model is now based on an annual subscription to a download and installation service that offers a large number of packages (both open source and proprietary) that are packaged specifically for Linspire. One of the essential requirements for a business desktop OS (at least if it is installed locally on every client throughout the enterprise) is a management system that can look after a large number of installations and update and maintain them remotely. Xandros now offers such tools; at the time of writing, Linspire does not, but has announced that management tools will be available in the near future. Other Approaches All the desktop solutions we have discussed so far, and Novell s Novell Linux Desktop (NLD) offering assume a local installation on each machine. This is essentially the approach of replacing the existing local Windows installation on each desk with a Linux installation. As noted previously, such a solution, if it is to be adopted on a large scale, requires some kind of system dedicated to the central management of software installation and updates. There is an interesting alternative to this approach, which is the idea of a diskless Linux thin client. There are a number of projects in this area, of which the best known is LTSP (the Linux Terminal Server Project). In such a setup, the client PC boots across the network (if the network card is capable of PXE booting, this just works) and gets an address by DHCP (see Chapter 20), loads a kernel from the LTSP
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