[Opensource] Thin client....very cheap computing!

[Peter Ruwoldt]

Excellent
How did you go with getting access to and mapping drives to a windows
server?
Was printing an issue?
Peter

2009/2/22 Brett Groves <groves.brett.g at edumail.vic.gov.au>

> Hi all,
>
> We had a major problem last year with trying to supply ICT support to our
> VCAL area last year as there was no budget available (sound  familiar?).
> Stumbled across the fact that Ubuntu Linux comes with thin client support
> built in. We gutted 20 old Acer 5100's, removed the hard drives etc and
> grabbed a spare 100Mbs 3Com switch and connected them all up. For a server
> we bought a very high end Acer PC for about $1300. We set it up over the
> hols and it really does work impressively, exceeding all expectations. There
> is virtually no indication to users that they are working on a dumb terminal
> except there is no need to bother turning them off!
>
> So for about $1500 we kitted out a whole computer lab and we have no
> worries about licences or paying for updates.....impressively cheap.
>
> If anyone on the list is looking for a solution like this to get computer
> access for students using all open source and mostly old hardware then
> please feel free to drop me a line for help or you are most welcome to pop
> through the school to have a look at how it works in action.
>
> If you are worried about Linux as I was I managed to teach myself pretty
> quickly how to configure the whole system using the resources on the
> Edubuntu site and a bit of googling. I'm no uber-techie by a long way so it
> gives you some indication how simple Ubuntu at least is to play with.
>
> Brett Groves
> ICT Manager
> Croydon Secondary College
> 03 9725 8277
> groves.brett.g at edumail.vic.gov.au
>
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