Gudmund Areskoug wrote the following on 19/02/2007 13:46:
Other than that, the stumbling blocks that come to my mind, are those:
- New thin clients are expensive in many regions (e. g. Sweden), reusing
old "fat computers" isn't, but is less neat.
LTSP Thin Client do not have to be expensive. If the organisation is
willing to go for less known brands, you can easily get thin clients for
under 200 Euro and if you go directly to the source in Taiwan or to the
importers in Europe, you can get them for under 150 USD.
Refurbished machines might seem cheap as you do not have to buy them,
but in general, you end up spending money on cleaning them and making
sure you have a limited amount of different hardware version you need to
support.
Our experience tells us that refurbished machines end up costing much
more than new thin clients because of the high failure rates and the
refurbishment process. I would not recommend anybody to go with
refurbished machines unless they are all the same and not older than 2
years.
- The same stumbling blocks apply as for any other Linux migration,
possibly compounded by how to set up Wine/Crossover to serve legacy
Windows app's from a server, including propagating sound and Windows
app's being made as single machine app's (e. g. need to access a CD
drive etc.)
There are really neat mini-ITX machines available that take the (cheap)
full size optical drives so access to that would not be an LTSP stopper.
In general, you do not want to keep stand alone applications that can
not be run from the server as they are a nightmare to support. If you
have lot of these, try to migrate the apps. If you have little, you can
always have a single full PC running that app until you have found a
replacement.
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