Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on April 13, 2003 12:05 AM
Tell you what, bud.
Thin clients boot, load the network and a minimalistic OS and then arrange for remote login and export of the resulting screens.
If you really want to know the capabilities of thin clients under Linux, google for LTSP and/or PXES (there are others<nobr> <wbr></nobr>... but these two come quickly to mind).
Thin clients allow you to build (and maintain) one beefy server which an entire department can use as if it were sitting under their own desks. The clients themselves take hardly any maintenance. This has the net effect of lessening the support workload.
Google for "Largo, FL" and when you get to the corporate website for the city, follow the links to their IT department. They run Linux throughout the city (all offices, libraries and so on) off just a small handful of servers.
This is not 'technofascism'<nobr> <wbr></nobr>... this is the elimination of wasteful public spending for hardware and software not needed to accomplish a goal. They still run a few Windows machines<nobr> <wbr></nobr>... but only in those circumstances where it actually makes sense to do so. I still run a Win 98 machine at my home while I wait for a software vendor to port an essential application. However, I run it inside Linux as a virtual machine and not on its own hardware.
Linux is definitely ready for the desktop<nobr> <wbr></nobr>... just ask my wife.
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Re:What about local graphics and multi-media etc?
Posted by: Anonymous Coward on April 13, 2003 12:05 AMThin clients boot, load the network and a minimalistic OS and then arrange for remote login and export of the resulting screens.
If you really want to know the capabilities of thin clients under Linux, google for LTSP and/or PXES (there are others<nobr> <wbr></nobr>... but these two come quickly to mind).
Thin clients allow you to build (and maintain) one beefy server which an entire department can use as if it were sitting under their own desks. The clients themselves take hardly any maintenance. This has the net effect of lessening the support workload.
Google for "Largo, FL" and when you get to the corporate website for the city, follow the links to their IT department. They run Linux throughout the city (all offices, libraries and so on) off just a small handful of servers.
This is not 'technofascism'<nobr> <wbr></nobr>... this is the elimination of wasteful public spending for hardware and software not needed to accomplish a goal. They still run a few Windows machines<nobr> <wbr></nobr>... but only in those circumstances where it actually makes sense to do so. I still run a Win 98 machine at my home while I wait for a software vendor to port an essential application. However, I run it inside Linux as a virtual machine and not on its own hardware.
Linux is definitely ready for the desktop<nobr> <wbr></nobr>... just ask my wife.
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