On Friday 30 March 2007 18:39, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] > Very good. Let them live in a MS2003 terminal server and then access them > using rdesktop from the central Linux box. Be careful, though. Do not > expect miracles with sound and video. If that's what the school really > want, sell them the idea of a separate room (multimedia room) with MACs > running all fancy multimedia stuff. My recommendation is to VERY stict > about what MS software to actually run. In my experience, nearly all sw > have very fine if not better OpenSource equivalents. > > I've setup many schools, I've always achieved the best results from the > 100% Linux schools. My attitude is like this; this is a Linux setup, if you > think MS i better then go for it by all means. Just don't ask me to set it > up. I've had the best successes in the places where I've been very strict > about this. > > > Thanks for comments and facts ;-)
I can't get round the (hyperthetical <grin>) problem of if you, the teacher, messed with my little-johny's laptop, then I'd go balistic. Maybe a knoppix type CD to a) boot and b) xdmcp to the server is the most politically correct way ahead. A pxe boot is nicer, but likely to cause hardware issues with some machines causing problems. knoppix does good HW detection. Altogether a difficult problem. Maybe a hybrid solution: a) most pxe ltsp clients b) next knoppix xdmcp c) xming if all else fails 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
