Quoting Mike Marion <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
Forgot about that... no disks or fans to fail on you either.
This is actually one of the reasons that we've been moving our engineers at work to things like sunray clients as well. Far less work required in replacing failing disks, fans.. users whining about noise, etc.
Of course it was originally driven by the power issues of 2001... instead of paying far more to buy huge UPSes to keep up workstations for long periods of time (and they wanted monitors on too), switch to something that goes down, but you don't lose anything and pickup where you left off when power comes back to the client. Added things like logging into your session from anywhere is nice.
Also removed compute jobs from desktops and concentrates the compute power back in the computer rooms where we can have better control over hardware, cooling, redundant networking, etc.
-- Mike Marion-Unix/Linux Admin-http://www.miguelito.org Would you buy a car with the hood welded shut? Linux: the maintainable OS. -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
