Potential School Wide Linux Implementation

[Eberhard Roloff]

Bruce Ferrell wrote:
> 
> Tim Holmes wrote:
>> HI Eberhard -  What advantage do i gain with LTSP over running it
>> directly on clients that can support linux with no problems ?
>>
>> On Sun, Apr 5, 2009 at 2:14 PM, Eberhard Roloff <tuxebi at gmx.de
>> <mailto:tuxebi at gmx.de>> wrote:
>>  
>>
>>      
>>     Imho this cries for LTSP, also to lower your adminstartive burden.
>>     Everntually you might consider using MS-Terminalserver for your
>>     remaining windows needs that you cannot rework with Linux.
>>
>>     see:
>>     http://www.ltsp.org/
>>
>>     and
>>
>>     http://k12ltsp.org/mediawiki/index.php/Main_Page
>>
>>     for a more school centric setup
>>
>>     Kind regards
>>     Eberhard
>>
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> 
> 
> Tim,
> 
> LTSP simplifies administration for you.  Make a change once and all
> workstations get it on their next boot.  No more visiting individual
> workstations to apply patches or configurations.  Once you get
> comfortable with it, you can do groups of workstations or customize each
> one.
> 
> Bruce
> 
> 
On top of this:

sign on to the same desktop, no matter what workstation you use, is built in

Diskless computing is built in,

extending client hardware life from "rather short" to nearly endless is 
built in.

And if a workstation hardware fails, just use the next bootable 
workstation (min 500hz cpu, 256mb recommended) and on you go with your work.

No need anymore to touch individual workstations. Simply forget about them.

All the work is done on the server(s) and this will surely simplify 
backup, as well.

Yet there are lots of possibilities to use local client ressources.

Kind regards
Eberhard