[Leaplist] Single Serve (with OS) and multiple clients (each with different environment)

[David Simmons]

Was wondering if anyone has any suggestions for the following setup:


 Machines all networked.....single 'server' with main copy of
OS...multiple client computers.
 
 Issue:  Have multiple
machines that when I do a system update/change (like moving from LinuxMint
from 2.2 to 3.0) suggests a full reinstall.
 
 While I know I
could have /home on a different partition - I still have to replicate on
each machine involved?!  Did a little searching about PXE - but what
I found was circa 1999....there's gotta be newer stuff?
 
 Only
recent thing I found was http://drbl.sourceforge.net/
 
 Does
anyone locally have such a setup?
 Can each 'client' have a different
config?  Where is that stored if no local hardware?  I guess
that could be done with client sign-in, could I have different setups
(with auto-login) based on MAC address?
 
 
 Thanks in
advance - dave
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