How to utilize these machines?

[David Groos]

Hi Joseph,

It sounds like you have a great set of equipment.  I agree about not using
these core 2 duo's as standalones, while you *can* set all clients: thin,
local, fat and thick ("thick" being another name for "standalone"), there
are big reasons to use LTSP when available, like ease of maintenance and
administration.

I do agree however that a processor like the core 2 duo doesn't really need
any help from the server to process.  Therefore, set these clients up as
"Fat Clients".  This still has all of the admin/management advantages of
LTSP but it takes very little server capacity since all the processing is
done locally on the client--best of both worlds.  There's lots of info
about setting up fat clients on the Ubuntu wiki and I think also on the
Edubuntu site as well.  Yes, you can run thin, local and fat clients all at
the same time with the same server.

Good luck,
David G


On Mon, May 20, 2013 at 7:39 AM, Joseph Bishay <joseph.bishay at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hello Theo,
>
> On Mon, May 20, 2013 at 8:29 AM,  <theo.schmidt at wilhelmtux.ch> wrote:
> > Am 20.05.2013 13:29, schrieb Joseph Bishay:
> >> They are desktop Compaq DC7900 Core 2 Duo 3 Ghz machines with 4 GB ram
> >> and 160 GB drives each.
> > They would make fine LTSP servers. Certainly a waste for pure thin
> clients,
> > maybe somebody else has ideas regarding fat clients. Other than that,
> > install Edubuntu stand-alone systems on them, and anything else useful.
>
> I already have a fairly robust Edubuntu LTSP server for our needs - i7
> processor with 12 GB RAM, and it's been working fairly well with the
> 25-odd computers we have in the school.  We need more machines so I
> won't be using them as LTSP servers, but as end-user computers.
>
> If I install them as stand-alone machines, I would lose the ability to
> have your profile and files follow you around the school as well as
> the central administration advantages of LTSP, would I not?
>
> Thanks
> Joseph
>
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