After one week of reading reviews and researching options, I have cut down the choices to the final two candidates that I will be testing. They are Ubuntu 8.04 LTSP and openSuse KIWI-LTSP.
I will admit that I am not a big Ubuntu fan and lean more towards openSuse but it looks like Ubuntu has the more stable version available.
I plan on setting up two servers, one of each flavor, and doing some side-by-side testing and evaluation as to:
- ease of installation
- availability of drivers
- security
- installation of additional software packages
- ease of administration
In addition to the above I am in the process of acquiring 3 or 4 boxes to use as workstations in my test network. If you have a computer you would like to donate, please say so in the comments.
With that Info,
Safer Surfing!