VNC as an alternative to LTSP on laptops?

[Don Davie]

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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