[K12OSN] Computer lab needed in Elementary school?

[Les Mikesell]

On 5/5/2011 3:14 PM, Joseph Bishay wrote:
> Hello,
>
> On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 4:04 PM, Robert Arkiletian<robark at gmail.com>  wrote:
>> Yes this seems to be the way people at the top are thinking these
>> days. The trend is towards having wireless and a personal device per
>> student, be it laptops or otherwise.
>
> If that is what they are thinking that's going to have major
> repercussions on us as you can't use LTSP over wireless and we can't
> afford to purchase, nor charge the students for some sort of personal
> device.

I think an interesting variation would be a way to boot a laptop into 
the NX client (locally, doesn't matter much how or what OS underneath), 
and then log into a freenx desktop session that would be essentially the 
same as a thin client but with good remote/wireless performance at least 
for everything short of streaming video.  You could probably do this 
from a live-cd so as not to have per-machine installs.  Or if the client 
already has a working OS, just install NX.

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   Les Mikesell
    lesmikesell at gmail.com