Probably not what you are looking for, but since I am in a hotel in China right now, I am using a thin client workstation in my room that is branded MPRC and is accessing a central server somewhere outside the room. No CPU box, just keyboard, mouse and monitor. Monitor has some kind of network interface.
This system I'm on right now is going against a Windows Enterprise server (I think that's what briefly appeared when I logged in.). Depending what protocol it uses to communicate with the server, maybe Linux could be used on the server side instead of Windows. http://www.pkunity.com/english%20version/engindex.htm Cheers from Beijing (9 deg F, brrr), -Steve On Sat, Jan 2, 2010 at 1:06 AM, Phil Hughes <[email protected]> wrote: > It is very likely I will be involved in setting up a small Internet > cafe in a community in Nicaragua. What makes sense here, of course, is > not the same as what makes sense in a "high-salary" area. I am > interested in a bit of feedback. > > Here are some starting points. > > ===== Assumptions ===== > * Most users will either be a non-computer user or a Windoze user > * Most use will be browsing, followed by lite office stuff such as > word processing and spreadsheets > * A reasonable amount of that browsing will likely be students doing research > * Most users will speak Spanish only > * Administrative labor (billing for use, etc) is cheaper than > technical solutions > * A "geek" will not be on-site most of the time > * The initial configuration will be four stations and could expand > to as many as eight > > ===== Questions ===== > * Gnome or KDE? > * Ease of use for newbie > * Useful documentation (in Spanish) > * Server and dumb clients (a la LTSP), useful workstations, or ... ? > * Proxy? > > > Gracias. > > -- > Phil Hughes > [email protected] -- [email protected] > -- Steve McCarthy [email protected] [email protected]
