As to the Gnome or KDE question, I have one data point that may be worth
$.02 or less.
I run my law office on Ubuntu and OpenOffice, using Gnome. My first
secretary was a Mac user and about a year into her employment I
overheard her tell someone she used Windows at the office. She thought
it was Windows because it was different from her Mac. She never had any
problems navigating any of it.
My second secretary was a Windows user and, yes, you guessed it . . .
she assumed she was using a Mac at "the office." She too had no
difficulty with any of the navigation.
So as far as user interface goes, I think they are probably all so
similar now that it won't make much difference what you use.
Erik
Steve McCarthy wrote:
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 <nica...@gmail.com> 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
nica...@gmail.com -- p...@ctpni.com
--
Erik B. Ryberg
Attorney at Law
312 South Convent Avenue
Tucson, AZ 85701
phone: (520) 622-3333
fax: (520) 622-2406
