VNC as an alternative to LTSP on laptops?

[Sameer Verma]

On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 9:31 AM, Jeffrey LePage
<jeffrey_lepage at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Greetings,
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> 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.
>

Have you looked at etherbooting these instead of pxebooting? This can
be done from a floppy (I'm assuming your thinclients have floppy
drives) http://etherboot.org/wiki/etherboot-software and
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuLTSP/LTSPEtherbootSetup

cheers,
Sameer

> 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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