Your feedback is much appreciated

[ramonsagullo at yahoo.com]

Danke vielmals, Kai! :-)  cut-and-paste hardaly fails :-)



>Todd described the differences between thin and thick clients very good. 

>f you use a thin client, all the programs run on server. So the kids 

>get all the performance of the server at the thin client. The thin 

>client can be old and slow. If one kid starts openoffice it will be 

>_very_ fast. If there are 20 kid who start openoffice at the same time, 

>if will get slower because the server has to work for 20 persons at the 

>same time. I think it will be faster to start openoffice 20 times on a 

>dualcore withe 4gB ram than on 20 win98se 500MHz with 128gB. 



With the suggestions I've gotten so far, including yours, I suppose what the school can save from getting thin clients can help us get a decent server with a stein-full of memory :-)

 

>This looks like our school lab. I am just testing if all our win-pc work 

>with edubuntu as a thin client. The lowest performance I have tested was 

>a 500MHz with 64mB. 



We still have a couple of 166MX pentium, and few Celeron 1.8



The Celerons will be "transplanted" in the library and in the faculty's longue. Hopefully, the new lab with its "tiny" thin client boxes will leave a big dent to  the school's electric bill. I am from the land of San Miguel beer, (I don't drink) and in this region in Asia, we have the highest cost per watt.



>This will make your life easier when a teacher says "here is a nice 

>software, would you please..."  



Sadly, none of our teachers can afford to even try a new software, since only 2 of them have a PC at home. School started last week, and prior to this, I introduced the teachers how to use OpenOffice for computing the grades of their students. And they simply loved it. 



I have the "luxury" of having 97% "control" on what we install in our computers. 2% goes the Registrar's clerks, with their  WinAmp :-) and 1% goes to their choice of wallpaper :-)

 

>2. You will get much headache. If you only know windows, you have to 

>earn very much, even if edubuntu-ltsp runs nearly out of the box. But 

>you have to think of dhcp, squid, user management... 



I don't get cold sweats in playing around with FOSS, but am "faaaar" from being knowledgeable in making a linux computer lab running smoothly :-)   I already have a professional consultant from the local pool of FOSS experts waiting for the go signal, who will help lessen, if not avoid, taking Tylenol :-)



>3. I calculate  

>-1500 Euros for the server  



Market size and currency fluctuations included, a dual core server with at leat 4Gig of memory will be around 2,095 Euros :-(



Mon Sagullo
 

 

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