On Wednesday 07 March 2007 01:54, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >>> Other than that, the stumbling blocks that come to my mind, are those: > >>> - New thin clients are expensive in many regions (e. g. Sweden), > >>> reusing old "fat computers" isn't, but is less neat. > >>> > >>> > >> > >> LTSP Thin Client do not have to be expensive. If the organisation is > >> willing to go for less known brands, you can easily get thin clients for > >> under 200 Euro and if you go directly to the source in Taiwan or to the > >> importers in Europe, you can get them for under 150 USD. > >> > > > > I'd be very happy to receive some addresses. ATM, things seem to be > > covered, but otherwise, the quantity needed would have been some 15 > > clients or so. For Uppsala, Sweden. > > > > > > We are the distributor of the eBox series for Southern Africa. There are > authorised resellers in Europe as well. > http://www.compactpc.com.tw/contact_us.htm > > > An other interesting site is http://www.ipc2u.de/catalog/E/EE/34461.html > Not sure if they are the cheapest around, but it does give a good idea > of what is available in Europe.
There is a fallacy about how kewl it is to use junk-box hardware for ltsp, how well it works and how cheap it is :-( Consider: An ebox 2300 at some 10W and an old hot PII at say 100W running for a year ... ebox2300 90KW/h (AUS)$10 250Kg CO2 crapPII 900KW/h $100 2500Kg CO2 (Sorry! for Sweden scrap 2500Kg CO2, say 10 000 years of deadly waste) <no soapbox, just food for thought> James ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _____________________________________________________________________ Ltsp-discuss mailing list. To un-subscribe, or change prefs, goto: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ltsp-discuss For additional LTSP help, try #ltsp channel on irc.freenode.net
