ncomputing and Ubuntu 9.10

[Arun Shrimali]

On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 2:35 PM, Christopher Chan
<christopher.chan at bradbury.edu.hk> wrote:
> Andrew Kane wrote:
>> On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 11:36 PM, Arun Shrimali <arun.reso at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Dear All,
>>>
>>> I found that n-computing is a leading provider of Virtual PC
>>> solutions. They claim to have 5% of all student seat computing in US,
>>> K-12 public school.
>>>
>>> Can anybody help me out "how to" setup  ncomputing (I have L230 and
>>> L130 models) with Ubuntu 9.10
>>> I also like users to share their experience about it.
>>
>> I did a brief search and found some Ubuntu Forum threads relating to
>> n-computing:
>> http://www.google.com/cse?cx=012285703143635244993%3Ai9yr8qlpb18&q=n-computing&sa=Search&siteurl=crunchbang.org%2Fubuntu-search-engine%2F
>>
>> I'm unclear as to why this is necessary or desirable. Ubuntu is
>> already a multi-user system out of the box. The X Window system was
>> designed from the ground up to work over a network. Surely this has
>> been done before in a way that doesn't require a proprietary black
>> box?
>>
>
> Please let know who else has a form factor like that of the Ncomputing
> Targas.
>
> Too bad Ncomputing has to use a proprietary protocol of its own and are
> not able to create software up to the task. Otherwise, they would be
> keepers. Right now, I am glad to be rid of them. No more complaints
> about crashes, yada, yada.
>
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>From the mails, it feels that to run the Ubuntu (9.10) on multiple
nodes, we does not need any thing like n-computing. We can have one
Ubuntu loaded where as other 3-4 nodes can be run as thin client ??

Can anybody help me to point some good "howto" about this

Arun