[ILUG] Thin Client in a secondary school

[John Gay]

On Sat 14 Feb 2004 09:27, ilug-request at linux.ie wrote:
> We got a 3rd hand server a few days ago and am playing around with it as
> a terminal server. By our standards it is a pretty beefy machine, a
> compaq proliant 5500 with 4 PIII Xeon 500MHz chips and 3X18 GB scsi
> drives. Downloaded and installed a distribution from
> http://www.k12ltsp.org/ which is based around Fedora Core 1 and the
> software developed by the Linux Terminal Server Project
> http://www.ltsp.org/.
>
Not bad!

> I want to do two things.
>
>       * Use some old computers as thin clients and distribute them to
>         various parts of the school.

Good way to breath new life into old hardware.

>       * Buy a couple of really snazzy looking thin clients
>
There are a few ways to go with this.

1) you can source some small, cheap systems from suppiers. I know that St. 
Olliver's, www.socc.ie do this, so they might be able to help your with 
suppiers.

I also have played with NCD thin clients. I got one from the last place I 
worked. They ate ARM-based, and though they won't run Linux, they can connect 
to your Linux system with binaries they provide, once the tftp, dhcp and 
other services are set-up. They are pretty small, with small footprints and 
even set-up nas automatically.

HTH,

	John Gay