VNC as an alternative to LTSP on laptops?

[Jeffrey LePage]

Greetings,

At our school we have a bunch of old laptops (vintage 1999, PII 400MHz, 256MB RAM).  Believe it or not they're still fairly functional.  They're running Xubuntu, but with openbox instead of XFCE.  With openbox and a few other tweaks I've been able to extend their useful life significantly.  However, we really need to get some better hardware, or find a better solution.

I tried to get LTSP running on these machines, but because of the lack of  PXE support in pcmcia I was unable to get a decent LTSP setup running.

I was wondering: has anyone used VNC or other remote desktop technologies as an alternative to a full-fledged LTSP setup?  If so, does sound work?
 

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