As someone who's never setup or even used LTSP before I'm just going to take a shot in the dark on this one ... aren't they saying that Xubuntu is a good client to be pulled from the central server and executed on the client because it's relatively lightweight.
Owen On Thu, Sep 21, 2006 at 10:47:45PM -0400, James McDermott wrote: > Hello All, > > We are starting to build a small thin-client demo network for a > classroom environment. > > The recommended requirements for the thin-client computer is a 300 MHz > P2 with 64 MB RAM and a 4MB display card. The thin-client computer can > run with no hard drive on the machine. > > Xubuntu is advertised as a good OS for thin-clients? > > I am wondering why we should have an OS installed on our thin-clients? I > speculate that maybe this gives us the ability to reboot the thin-client > machines into a Xubuntu session if the server was down? > > If the server is down, will the thin-client try to boot to the network > (fail) and then automatically boot from the hard drive (assuming the > correct boot order is set in BIOS)? > > Does PXE enabled NIC booting or booting using a etherboot floppy require > that the machine have an installed OS? > > Our server will be a P4 running Edubuntu. > > If you have any thoughts about why we should install an OS like Xubuntu > in the P2 thin-clients, please advise. > > Thanks, > > Jim McDermott -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/
