Hi, On Sun, 18 May 2008, Tom Atkins wrote:
> We are buying a couple of new PCs for 'multimedia' in the same lab - in > particular watching of DVD's and burning CD's. What is the best way to set > these up? Should I just install Ubuntu locally on each of the new PCs and > then use NFS and LDAP for authentication and file sharing to the server? Or > would the LTSP Fat client setup work for DVD watching? >From a maintenance point of view (applying patches, adding packages, disk failures, keeping the installs consistent), the LTSP stuff would be handy. Local desktops might have some advantages too though. > Fat client setup as described here: > https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuLTSP/LTSPFatClients > > If the Fat Client setup would work, would the Fat Clients be diskless or > would I need to buy hard drives? The general idea is that they would be diskless though they could I guess have local storage if you wanted it. It seems to miss the point if you need to do that though. Gavin -- edubuntu-users mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/edubuntu-users
