"The City of Largo is a thin client/X shop. We have 400
thin client devices that support X, 800 total users, and run about
230 concurrently during the heaviest part of the day. For the last
7 years, we have always built one large 'desktop' system that
everyone logs into and gets their desktop. All of the icons do a
'rsh' to other systems and then start up the various software
packages that we have in the City. For instance, an icon will say
"WordPerfect" and the command executed is "rsh oa1
/usr/local/bin/sh_wordperfect $DISPLAY". Previously, this function
was done by the IXI Desktop on SCO OpenServer, and then later we
ran KDE 1 on OpenServer, then Unixware. The Friday cutover was
moving all of these users off of Unixware to RedHat Linux 7.1 and
KDE 2.1.1 Because only KDE is running on this machine, the
performance is a good look at how KDE scales.
The cutover has gone *really* well. Most of the issues that we
have had have been people issues and not technology issues. I have
been keeping notes and the issues that came up are noted
below..."
