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

[Rob Beard <rob@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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



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