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

[Andrew Rogers <andrew@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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



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