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Rob Beard wrote:That sounds interesting, so rather than spending say £500 per machine on a load of new desktops, the existing desktops can be reused and less money can be spent on a decent spec server?
Tom Brough wrote:
There are of course ways of locking down Linux Desktops ... If you wantOne of the places I used to work at had a few thin clients but unfortanately they were WinCE based and the server ran Windows 2000 Server.
to save on "re imaging" (and a stack load of other hardware that
duplicated in each machine thats not necessary for desktop use) use LTSP
and thin clients ... oh there I go again with my 4 letter acronym. 1
server = 20 + clients. Install software / upgrade software on server =
instant upgrade / install on 20 + clients, got to be worth the savings
on maintenance ? IMHO of course .....
Tom
With the LTSP, is it possible to use older hardware (Pentium 200's etc with low memory size) as thin clients?
Yes. I used a P100 with 32 MByte RAM as my first LTSP project.
Regards Andrew
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