[K12OSN] Get rid of my PCs

[David Trask]

"Support list for opensource software in schools." <k12osn at redhat.com> on
Friday, January 28, 2005 at 8:44 PM +0000 wrote:
>My question for the list is: are there any opinions out there for Thin
>Clients?  Personally, I like the Sun Ray 170
>(http://www.sun.com/sunray/sunray170/index.xml).  I was told Sun may be
>having a twofer sale in March.  I've been told Sun Server software for
>these
>thin clients can run off of Fedora Core 3 (I'm still working on that one).
>
>Opinions?

Yeah...have you seen the price?  Over $1000!  You can buy an LTSP 150 from
disklessworkstations.com  for $279!  Add a monitor for $225
-$250...Keyboard and mouse for $20 and you're still WAY under $1000!

David N. Trask
Technology Teacher/Coordinator
Vassalboro Community School
dtrask at vcs.u52.k12.me.us
(207)923-3100