[K12OSN] thin clients

[William Parrott]

Hi John,

We aren't using it in production yet. We are testing as well. I'm
currently supporting over 1200 PC's and 36 servers in a Windows 2003
network. I was looking to the K12LTSP project as a way to run some
legacy Windows apps (using emulation) on thin-client devices. The goal
for us is to do away with desktop PC's in labs where a thin-client can
do the job. To ease the cost of transition from PC to thin-client
devices we are looking to leverage several white-box PC's we purchased
over the last 8 years. Most of them are "book-pc's", made by a few
different manufacturer's but Amptron comes to mind. They are PIII
Celeron-based with 128MB of RAM, 20Gig HDD, and CD-ROM.

Hope this helps,

William

> -----Original Message-----
> From: k12osn-bounces at redhat.com 
> [mailto:k12osn-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of John Arends
> Sent: Tuesday, April 19, 2005 2:48 PM
> To: k12osn at redhat.com
> Subject: RE: [K12OSN] thin clients
> 
> This is interesting...I was looking forward to using 
> something like that, but now I may rethink it.
> 
> What PCs do you guys use? Any random ones you can get your 
> hands on, or have you standardized on something? I want to 
> try setting up 10 terminals and a server as a test, but cost 
> is a huge factor.
> 
> >>> wparrott at gcps1.com 04/19/05 12:23 PM >>>
> Shawn,
> 
> Thanks for the tip! :) I knew that there was something too 
> good to be true about them... 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: k12osn-bounces at redhat.com
> > [mailto:k12osn-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Shawn Powers
> > Sent: Tuesday, April 19, 2005 12:45 PM
> > To: Support list for opensource software in schools.
> > Subject: Re: [K12OSN] thin clients
> > 
> > On Apr 19, 2005, at 12:25 PM, William Parrott wrote:
> > > planning to evaluate the Neoware Capio One (under $250 
> w/o monitor)
> > 
> > Let me save you time -- the video is HORRIBLE on those devices.  It 
> > works half the time with vesa as the driver, the other half of the 
> > time it doesn't work at all.  NO acceleration, so even when 
> working, 
> > it's choppy and slow.
> > 
> > I affectionately call ours "CRAPIOS"  -- which at least makes me 
> > smile.
> >   ;o)
> > 
> > -Shawn
> > --
> > Shawn Powers
> > Technology Director
> > Inland Lakes Schools
> > PHN: 231-238-6868 x9174
> > FAX: 509-356-7024
> > spowers at inlandlakes.org
> > http://techcorner.inlandlakes.org
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