VNC as an alternative to LTSP on laptops?
Don Davie
dedavie at gmail.com
Sat Jan 24 01:37:32 GMT 2009
Check in with your local County Office of Education or local county gvt
office. On Fridays, they hold a county surplus sale, everything electronic
that the county has can be transfered into our inventory wihtout cost as its
"recycling". I managed to get all 15 classroom HP 4000 network printers(yes
they are old but they work and its just ordering 1 type of tonor rather then
15 different ones :) I also picked up a full set of functional 32 hp
vectras for student pc's, (pIV 1.4 gig, 800 fsb). And occasionaly sometimes
you get real gems. We picked up 4 HP 2100's with nics that the county
library had. Their counters red 7 to 9k wich isn't too bad for a used
printer. they replaced them as their grant paid for new ones. If you are
a member of a school district, they occasionally have the same sales as
well.
Good hunting,
Lt. Don E. Davie
La Sierra Military Academy
On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 9:31 AM, Jeffrey LePage <jeffrey_lepage at yahoo.com>wrote:
> 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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