The Resara guys have done a lot of good work in this area already. They made a report at Sugar Camp, but I don't know if there are associated tickets.
-walter On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 8:38 AM, Tomeu Vizoso <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sat, Dec 13, 2008 at 15:18, David Van Assche <[email protected]> wrote: >> LTSP deployments range in the millions worldwide, and are definitely a >> necessary target for Sugar. Macedonia is just a small example of what >> has been done elsewhere with terminals that are far cheaper than the >> falsely advertised $100 laptops. In Brazil alone, there are millions >> of computers running LTSP on top of k12linux or edubuntu. Sugar Labs >> should be taking serious notice of thin client technology and adapting >> the UI to work for it. > > I agree with you. Do we have an idea of what needs to be done to sugar > in order to adapt it as best as possible to LTSP environments? Would > be nice to have a tracker ticket in dev.sugarlabs.org about LTSP > improvements. > > Thanks, > > Tomeu > >> LTSP has been around for 10 years now, and as >> much as people talk about cloud computing, thin clients are getting >> more available and common, not less... >> >> kind Regards, >> David Van Assche >> www.nubae.com >> >> On Sat, Dec 13, 2008 at 6:13 AM, Edward Cherlin <[email protected]> wrote: >>> On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 1:18 PM, Walter Bender <[email protected]> >>> wrote: >>>> I had a pissing match with their founder in the WSJ about a year >>>> ago... >>> >>> I saw that written up at OLPC News. Yes, Ncomputing is still at it, >>> just like Intel and Microsoft. Competition, you know. Can't have that. >>> ^_^ >>> >>>> I didn't get any straight answers from him about costs or >>>> learning. >>> >>> Nothing usable on the site yesterday. Most of the site is down today. >>> >>>> But Sugar on their Ubuntu thin client sounds doable. >>> >>> Perhaps we should have a word with Macedonia and some other countries. >>> We can't leave all of the sales work to Nicholas any more. >>> >>> http://www.computerweekly.com/Articles/2007/09/17/226807/macedonia-rolls-out-ncomputing-clients-for-all-school.htm >>> >>> 180,000 units >>> >>> 1.8 M in India... >>> >>>> -walter >>>> >>>> On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 4:15 PM, Edward Cherlin <[email protected]> wrote: >>>>> Has anybody evaluated Ncomputing's claims on cost, power, and the like >>>>> for school deployments? For example, >>>>> >>>>> http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/Interview/Stephen_Dukker_CEO_Ncomputing/articleshow/3820649.cms >>>>> http://www.ncomputing.com/republic-of-macedonia.aspx >>>>> >>>>> They run Ubuntu (or Windows) over thin clients, so they could run >>>>> Sugar once the packaging problems are fixed (The journal currently >>>>> saves precisely nothing). Has anybody talked with them? >>>>> >>>>> -- >>>>> Silent Thunder (默雷/धर्ममेघशब्दगर्ज/دھرممیگھشبدگر ج) is my name >>>>> And Children are my nation. >>>>> The Cosmos is my dwelling place, The Truth my destination. >>>>> http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/User:Mokurai >>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>> IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) >>>>> [email protected] >>>>> http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> -- >>>> Walter Bender >>>> Sugar Labs >>>> http://www.sugarlabs.org >>>> >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Silent Thunder (默雷/धर्ममेघशब्दगर्ज/دھرممیگھشبدگر ج) is my name >>> And Children are my nation. >>> The Cosmos is my dwelling place, The Truth my destination. >>> http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/User:Mokurai >>> _______________________________________________ >>> IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) >>> [email protected] >>> http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep >> _______________________________________________ >> IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) >> [email protected] >> http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep > _______________________________________________ > IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) > [email protected] > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep -- Walter Bender Sugar Labs http://www.sugarlabs.org _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) [email protected] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
