[K12OSN] Multimedia

[Casey Woods]

The administration at my school is really keen on going big time with 
LTSP technology.  We have a great network (Gbit backbone with 100 Mbit 
to every desktop) so we have lots of bandwidth.  I also have a pretty 
decent budget for buying a bunch of dual Opteron servers.

Here's my problem:  The students aren't just using the current Windows 
2000 PCs for Word and email (mostly P3s with 128MB ram).  The school has 
access to a bunch of web-based multimedia resources (streaming video and 
audio).  The concern is that we'll have to take that away if we move to 
thin clients.

Suggestions?  Would a NoMachine client running locally do the trick?  If 
I have tons of bandwidth will this run okay if I'm running rdesktop 
locally and run everything off my MS terminal server?  Could I run 
Firefox and the required media player(s) as local apps?  Any ideas?

Thanks,
Casey Woods