ncomputing and Ubuntu 9.10

Karl F. Larsen klarsen1 at gmail.com
Tue Dec 15 13:03:01 UTC 2009


Arun Shrimali wrote:
> 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.

	Need to define node. If node means partition then it is 
simple. I have many partitions on my computer each running a 
version of Linux. But they run just one at a time.

	Do you want all partitions running at the same time?


  We can have one
> Ubuntu loaded where as other 3-4 nodes can be run as thin client ??
> 

	What is a thin client?


73 Karl


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


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