Hi, On Mon, 21 Jul 2008, David Stalane wrote:
> The reason I think I'll do full desktop installs is that all the PC's > are identical and the spec is not good enough for a server and too > good for thin client (they had bought the gear already)...I don't want > to cannibalize the existing machines or spend anymore money. That makes reasonable sense. The only trouble with desktop installs is the maintenance is a lot greater. You need to maintain the install on each desktop individually. Some of this can be automated, but thin clients really are one machine. I'm not sure of the status at this point of the diskless fat client (or whatever it's called). The idea is that your desktops network boot, and take their applications, etc. from the server as with thin clients, but they actually run applications locally on the desktop, rather than running them on the server. In principal, this should give you a single install to maintain, but use the computing power of the desktops. I'm not honestly sure if this works well at this point though. I've never done it myself. Gavin -- edubuntu-users mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/edubuntu-users
