[K12OSN] OT: Apple Imac lab

[Almquist Burke]

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On Mar 1, 2009, at 10:09 AM, Asmo Koskinen wrote:

> David Hopkins kirjoitti:
>
>> Going from Windows to thin clients on 'upgrades' isn't that
>> difficult most of the time, but the Achille's heel on this is still
>> sound/video editing.
>
> Just a thought...
>
> Kino, Kdenlive, Ardourd2, Rosegarden, Hydrogen... are there really  
> so bad?
>

I wasn't questioning whether you could do A/V editing on Linux. I  
don't have a lot of experience with the various software packages for  
that, so I can't really compare that experience on different  
platforms and software packages. I was just suggesting that anything  
that is really hardware intensive (like A/V editing, encoding, or  
moderately demanding video games) really DOES need to run locally on  
a workstation powerful enough to support that activity. Thin clients  
aren't really a good idea for a demanding application like that,  
hence my suggestion to have a small lab of real (quote-unquote)  
workstations but have them authenticate and get NFS /home from the  
same server as your thin clients.

I have saved document from DavidTrask and Matt Odquist on how to set  
this up for OS X workstations. I'm not sure if it's online anymore,  
so if you are interested I'd be happy to post it.
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