[K12OSN] Diskless thin clients finding predators

[Robert Arkiletian]

On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 9:40 PM, Alan Hodson <ahodson at elp.rr.com> wrote:
> Greetings
>
>  After having almost no 'predators' for number of years, the K12LTSP servers
> that I've run in the El Paso ISD (evolved to Centos5 servers and more
> recently to Edubuntu servers, all working via diskless thin clients from
> powerful servers with 4-8G RAM,) are being challenged and slowly killed by
> the Instructional Technology folks (predators) who insist that every lab
> must be a multimedia lab, running what amounts to MS based apps. The heavy
> flash sites that the district has chosen for training and tech applications,
> and the tests mandated by the State are making the thin client option a hard
> choice. Our new CTO wants true thin clients, but some of the MS specific
> apps can't deliver via Remote Terminal Services, so now we are looking into
> "fat" thin clients (!) with CE embedded, so part of the processing is done
> by the client, leaving some room for other services... We've even coined the

My only suggestion would be buying relatively powerful clients which
run apps 100% locally. But still have no hard drive.

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuLTSP/LTSPFatClients

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Robert Arkiletian
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