Hey Vijai I was going to respond to your email as soon as I saw it, saying that you should buy thin clients and a terminal server. But I didn't since I have a vested interest - I own a company that provides thin client solutions in the NCR area - www.thinvent.in.
I am happy to know that every other responder has offered the same solution. I have been working on diskless computers, LTSP, and thin clients, for the last 15 years. I am happy to know that there is now so much traction and widespread acceptance of this technology. Do post on the list if you need any help setting up diskless nodes. Ubuntu is the OS to go for diskless nodes, although my own favourite is Fedora. Cheers! Saurabh On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 11:27 PM, Vijai Ganapathy <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi All, > > > I am planning to buy 10 numbers of system for FOSS related free > education + lab setup. > Main purpose for buying these to enable students to work on FOSS ( > mainly Linux Admin and programming ) topics. > > Budget is really tight as all the money coming from my pocket. I was > thinking about below configuration. > > 1. AMD Athlon II X2 260 + Gigabyte GA-78LMT-S2P + HDD + 4 GB Ram > > or > > 2. Intel Atom D525 based system. > > Heard that Atom based system are not really facinating to work from > few users. Can someone throw light on this. > Also need your suggestion on the HW config and keep in mind that my > budget is really tight. > > -- > Vijai Ganapathy > Mailto: [email protected] > > _______________________________________________ > Ilugd mailing list > [email protected] > http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd -- http://saurabh.org.in _______________________________________________ Ilugd mailing list [email protected] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
