Simon, we have multiple clients (schools) that do well with older Dell (OptiPlex) and HP desktops, as well as the occasional Lenovo (M4x. M5x). The key here, we think, to stick with the corporate line models. We've seen these can run for years after their 3 - 5 years of corporate usage / return from lease.
Server end? We only use virtualized Ubuntu servers, and hand them 8 GB of RAM. This can easily handle 30 simultaneous clients, and in some cases, we have 2 labs of 60 running these. We have very, very few issues with these. Steve Marfisi Fossie Consulting -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, April 11, 2017 8:01 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Ltsp-discuss Digest, Vol 131, Issue 7 Send Ltsp-discuss mailing list submissions to [email protected] To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ltsp-discuss or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to [email protected] You can reach the person managing the list at [email protected] When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of Ltsp-discuss digest..." Today's Topics: 1. Good (cheap) fat client to be purchased in US (Simon Baev) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2017 16:31:52 -0400 From: Simon Baev <[email protected]> Subject: [Ltsp-discuss] Good (cheap) fat client to be purchased in US To: ltsp-discuss <[email protected]> Message-ID: <CA+my+bAMTxsCnv=9ulgm88_z2nxxsgxoq_trwo8-itohfuj...@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Hello All, I am planing to rebuild our existing *thin-client* LTSP setup based off of the Lubuntu 14.04 and replace all thin terminals by *fat clients*. Couple weeks ago I read here that there exist cheap desktops (around $150) that are good candidates for fat clients in an LTSP-PNP environment. I have a budget of approx $3.5k for 20+ fat terminals Are there any "must seen" models/vendors/... that happened to work well as fat clients? Also, I am currently running LTSP server as a VM in ESXi and it works well (no performance issues). Would it make sense to move it to a real hardware (HP ML350 Gen5 with 32GB of RAM)? Thank you. -- Simon -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... ------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot ------------------------------ _____________________________________________________________________ Ltsp-discuss mailing list. To un-subscribe, or change prefs, goto: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ltsp-discuss For additional LTSP help, try #ltsp channel on irc.freenode.net End of Ltsp-discuss Digest, Vol 131, Issue 7 ******************************************** ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _____________________________________________________________________ Ltsp-discuss mailing list. To un-subscribe, or change prefs, goto: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ltsp-discuss For additional LTSP help, try #ltsp channel on irc.freenode.net
