[K12OSN] Starting with NO Thin Clients to PC or to Thin

[ATM Logic]

Thanks for the reply's  One of the other reasons I ask is we can pick up
about 50 or so IBM's preloaded with XP Home for about the cost of a
ThinClient (about $200ish) They are 1.8G with 256Mb.  My thought is to grab
them up, and have a load of spares... HOWEVER they make that much more
noise, and are already 2-3 years old...


-----Original Message-----
From: k12osn-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:k12osn-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf
Of Gideon Romm
Sent: March 8, 2006 10:51 AM
To: Support list for opensource software in schools.
Subject: Re: [K12OSN] Starting with NO Thin Clients to PC or to Thin

On Wed, 2006-03-08 at 08:01 -0600, ATM Logic wrote:
>  I would like to deploy this to a small school for a K-4 
> enviroment...(20-30
> Client)
> 

If sound is important, I would suggest going with an IceWM or Gnome desktop
environment and esd sound.  I know David Trask and other of my friends up in
Maine will probably advocate nasd rather than esd, but you will get great
support either way from this list.

> I think its important to have sound at this level, so that is one part.
> Now... If they are starting with nothing, should they try to round up 
> a whole load of mix and match PC's or go all, brand new thin clinets?  
> If new and thin... What do you recommend?  Wyse, Compaq, Dell?
> 

If you are planning on having a lab for many years and are starting fresh,
you will save yourself a lot of time and aggravation going with new thin
clients.  It will also impress parents/teachers/kids/decision makers a lot
more.

That said, if you don't have the budget and would like to reuse old
equipment, note that if sound is important, make sure that all the sound
cards are PCI (*not* ISA) and that they work well in Linux.

In terms of diskless thin client products, you can check out:

1. DisklessWorkstations.com (owned/operated by LTSP founders Jim McQuillan
and Ron Colcernian) 2. DisklessThinClients.com ( a brand new store operated
by Symbio Technologies - also a member of the core LTSP development team,
but stocked with thin clients from many manufacturers.  There is a nice
compare feature - if I do say so myself - where you can compare a variety of
models side-by-side )

Hopefully, that should get you started.  

Cheers,

-Gideon

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