You would be surprised how many requests for thin-client type systems I'm seeing on the horizon. Thin-clients are a very viable solution for both developed and developing countries. In developed countries it's an easy way to implement a campus wide computing solution at a low cost. In developing countries you simply do not have the infrastructure to support full desktop solutions; think electricity and network savings. And now with all this "cloud" marketing, there is a renewed effort by many companies to offer thin-clients with all the storage in the cloud (google docs anyone). LTSP is just one of many thin-client solutions.
cheers, Belinda Education Canonical [email protected] [email protected] IRC: dinda Office: Galveston, Texas -- Ubuntu - Linux for Human Beings http://www.ubuntu.com http://www.edubuntu.org http://www.canonical.com --------------------------- On 11/08/2010 02:44 PM, Robert Arkiletian wrote: > On Mon, Nov 8, 2010 at 12:34 PM, Robert Arkiletian<[email protected]> wrote: > >> In my opinion, the days of LTSP are numbered. For a few different reasons. >> >> 1) >> hardware is so cheap now. You can buy a brand new power efficient and >> fast desktop system for about $200 (not including monitor). Thin >> > Forgot to mention I mean a *diskless* desktop system. > > >> 2) >> DRBL. This is the route I have taken. It's similar to ltsp boot >> process via pxe but ALL processes run locally. Only the filesystem is >> remote via nfs. There is no need for special plumbing for sound or >> local devices. Everything works like a stand alone system. Except the >> first time to launch (not run) apps is slightly longer since the >> binary needs to be downloaded into local ram from the network before >> it can be run. One user can't hog ram or cpu. Full class of full >> screen video and flash, no problem. I even have had an entire class of >> students simultaneously install and run Ubuntu in a Virtualbox VM on >> top of the diskless client OS. Local apps with LTSP cannot do this. >> Although I do have dual gigabit nics for the lan and hardware raid 10 >> for the server. Each client can have it's own nfs mounted /etc and >> /var so there can still be customization per client. >> > Plus you get the benefit of managing only one system, like LTSP. > > > -- edubuntu-users mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/edubuntu-users
