I've also done some testing and I'm oriented in using diskless/fat-client. Thin client are not a good computing experience, for exemple a youtube video doesn't play in an acceptable manner.
I'm intrigued by the HP t410 integrated thin clients; they will be available in europe in September. But I fear that the ARM/Cortex will be too weak, too. So I'll test them first. Otherwise I'm oriented to buy i386/atom with at least 2GB RAM and decend graphics. Why not having a fat client producer that would provide fatclient with 10 GB flashmem; in that case I would prefere them, and use standard workstation config. Best Regards Giorgio On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 09:23:48AM +0100, George wrote: > Hi, > > We are planning to use skolelinux after summer. Problem is, we have some > clients that are a bit slow, so we need to do an upgrade. The budget is, of > course, a bit tight. > > I have tried the HP t5630. It has 1GB memory and a 1 ghz proc. Problem is it > also uses the via VX800 unified chip. The support for that seems to be a bit > jerky when it comes to Debian. It worked with squeeze for some time, but > after the latest kernelupdate it does not work anymore. I guess its possible > to make it work, but it seems a bit unstable at the moment. > > The other option is buying some used computers, like these ones; > http://reuseit.se/sv/stationaera/hpcompaq-dc7800-usdt-e6750.php?group=prod_prod_grp-s1%2F107 > > They are not much more expensive, but of course they take some more power and > makes some more noise. I dont have any real experience of running a full > setup of diskless workstations. It will be something like 25 of them (+50 > thinclients). > > Honestly I have a problem making a descission. I prefer thinclients, but we > are not prepared to buy new ones, and if we are going to buy, at least they > have to be at the same standard as t5630 or better, othervise they will not > be much better then the ones we have (as T5530 and Siemens A230). So T5630 > seems to be the type that are easy available used for a descent price. > > Im just asking for advice. Biased or not. > > /George > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] > Archive: > http://lists.debian.org/[email protected] > > -- Giorgio Pioda - Sysadmin SPSE-Tenero Cell +41 79 629 20 63 Uff. +41 91 735 62 48 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
