On Tue, 10 Oct 2006, Simon Ruiz wrote: > Anyhow, these workstations are far too beefy to be LTSP clients (that is, > it'd be a waste to use them as such), so they all run as desktops. Last > year I used Edubuntu on the first batch of computers, and this year as > I'm redesigning the system we're using I've honestly started using plain > vanilla Ubuntu.
> So, any ideas? How can I be useful to Edubuntu? Or should I just stick > with vanilla Ubuntu? There is such a thing as diskless clients which run all of their own applications. This might suit your requirements well. The idea being that you provide a PXE boot image and then an NFS shares with home dir and system image. Then the desktops do all the work. This might work well for you because: - it'll make use of all of your good cpus - adding new machines involves zero install, you just plug them in and PXE boot them - client disk failures are not an issue - installation of software is only done in one place - home directories are stored centrally (although that's easy enough to arrange with nfs anyway) - you get much better performance on video, sound, etc. as the data doesn't have to stream across the network I don't think edubuntu supports this mode of operation at the minute, but I imagine it could. One implementation is called lessdisks, LTSP has something called LOCAL_APPS, though I'm not sure exactly what that does. If that would be your ideal Edubuntu setup, maybe you could propose working on a project to implement that. I'm only another user of course, it's possible the Edubuntu people will think this a horrible idea. Gavin -- edubuntu-devel mailing list edubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/edubuntu-devel