Linux at school with notebooks 5114

On Thu, 13 Oct 2005 20:25:53 +0200, Geir Holmavatn staggered into the Black Sun and said:

I was wondering that too. (Geir, as a quick groups.google will show, Peter doesn't seem to know what "tact" is. Don't take it personal; he's like this with *everyone*.)

I thought the Linux Terminal Server Project was developing something; an but you may want to look at it anyway for future reference. Running a terminal server for reasonably high-powered laptops seems like a waste to me, but it means you only have one machine to administer. Or you could customize a Knoppix CD and burn a bunch of copies of that.

I don't print things, so I can't offer much advice on that. Every distro in existence groks NFS and SMB, so no worries there.

You still haven't provided any specifics about what it is that the students will actually be doing. A terminal server may work, but it'll require some setup time, a fairly fast CPU, and lots of RAM. Customized LiveCDs may be better for some things. Heck, if you have a reasonably fast machine and enough bandwidth, you could install the Cygwin X server on the Windows machines, then run X clients on the fast machine and have the laptops display them on their local X servers. That might be less work than running Linux on the laptops.

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