There are schools that have over 1000 thin-clients. They add more servers when necessary. It is also possible to integrate Microsoft Terminal Services as well as Linux. John Hass over at Okoboji worked (still works) for a firm that sell their own thin-client solution that can handle both - it really looks good from what little I have seen of it. Of course you still have the CAL's for each client that needs Windows, but you still centralize the IT work. Those old thin-clients I use are pretty maintainence free - If one goes bad, I just replace it with another old beater.
I'm running a couple of servers right now and use NFS to connect up the home folders for all the students - no matter which server they connect to they still save to the same server. I also do that with the dual-boot systems I have around the building. Anything Linux gets saved to the same folder on the same server. I'll be honest, I haven't used Microsoft office for some time. I guess I just don't know what I'm missing -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Steven Scarbrough Sent: Wednesday, August 10, 2005 10:47 AM To: info-tech@aea8.k12.ia.us Subject: Re: [info-tech] Fwd: Want a Computer on Every Student's Desk? Jerry wrote: > >If they want free of cheap PC's, why not just use up > >all those old 100 mHz PC's and use thin-clients Excellent point. However I wonder how many staff will want multimedia, i.e., United Streaming snippets, to project to their classes. If too many do that on LTS, it will begin to tax the server. Yet long-term, particularly for labs doing simple word processing or web research, terminals can't be beat. Novell's Linux Desktop comes with the Citrix client built in. So if Open Office isn't enough, they can still get to the Presentation server for the real Office 2003. Food for thought, this terminal server stuff. If one can avoid paying a Microsoft Terminal Server CAL for every user by going Linux TS, there's huge long-term savings. -SS --- [This E-mail scanned for viruses by Declude Virus on the server aea8.k12.ia.us] --------------------------------------------------------- Archived messages from this list can be found at: http://www.mail-archive.com/info-tech@aea8.k12.ia.us/ --------------------------------------------------------- --- [This E-mail scanned for viruses by Declude Virus on the server aea8.k12.ia.us] --------------------------------------------------------- Archived messages from this list can be found at: http://www.mail-archive.com/info-tech@aea8.k12.ia.us/ ---------------------------------------------------------
