LTSP was Re: What is/was your work desktop? was Re: [LUG] SIMS

[Tom Brough <tombrough@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 2004-12-08 at 23:05, Rob Beard wrote:
> Andrew Rogers wrote:
>
> > Rob Beard wrote:
> >
> > > Tom Brough wrote:
> > >
> > > > There are of course ways of locking down Linux Desktops ... If you want
> > > > 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
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >  
> > > One 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.
> > >
> > > 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
> 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?
>
> Thats good, probably better then my idea of clustering together a load 
> of old 486's and Pentiums a few years ago at work.
>
> Rob

Yep thats the gist of it given 32Mb's ram and a decent network card the
486's will be fine as clients. Do spend what you can spare on the server
(as you save 500 a pop on the clients you can afford / justify this).
10Mbps networks will work but 100Mbps is a much better choice. One
secured access point for software installation the clients are
effectively terminals and will always remain so. For custom LTSP / LTSP
resources see the guys who started it all off http://www.ltsp.org/ (ok
LTSP concept was around since the first days of X before it was called
LTSP but you know what I mean).

If you are interested in using it for education establishments see the
ready to go distro based on RH FC at http://k12ltsp.org/. The history of
k12ltsp makes very interesting reading, I hate to admit it but MS have
done a lot to "promote" this distro (in a backward and heavy handed way
of course).

Tom.

Who is finding it hard to get through a day with out saying LTSP.





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