Fat clients or standalone for DVD watching?

[Gavin McCullagh]

Hi,

On Sun, 18 May 2008, Tom Atkins wrote:

> We are buying a couple of new PCs  for 'multimedia' in the same lab - in
> particular watching of DVD's and burning CD's.  What is the best way to set
> these up? Should I just install Ubuntu locally on each of the new PCs and
> then use NFS and LDAP for authentication and file sharing to the server? Or
> would the LTSP Fat client setup work for DVD watching? 

From a maintenance point of view (applying patches, adding packages, disk
failures, keeping the installs consistent), the LTSP stuff would be handy.
Local desktops might have some advantages too though.

> Fat client setup as described here: 

> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuLTSP/LTSPFatClients
> 
> If the Fat Client setup would work, would the Fat Clients be diskless or
> would I need to buy hard drives?

The general idea is that they would be diskless though they could I guess
have local storage if you wanted it.  It seems to miss the point if you
need to do that though.

Gavin