Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on April 16, 2005 05:31 AM
That's all LTSP really is. If you have the money to throw at "thin client hardware", and you don't have any old PC hardware laying arround, then you have absolutely no need for LTSP.
If, on the other hand, you have 10 or 15 old under-powered PC's laying arround and you don't have the $400 each to buy the thin clients, then it might just be worth your time to get LTSP running -- about a 4 hour project when I first started working with it, but should be only about a 1 hour project to get it working now.
Now let's figure. If your time is worth $80/hour and it will take you 4 hours to get the thing working, that's $320. How many terminals would you have to save yourself from buying in order to pay back your investment of time? If that's too much for you, I bet someone else would be glad to have your cast off PC hardware. In fact, I think I read something on the k-12 LTSP site relative to donating old PC's to schools for use with the LTSP software. You might at least get a tax writeoff for the old equipment.
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Posted by: Anonymous Coward on April 16, 2005 05:31 AMIf, on the other hand, you have 10 or 15 old under-powered PC's laying arround and you don't have the $400 each to buy the thin clients, then it might just be worth your time to get LTSP running -- about a 4 hour project when I first started working with it, but should be only about a 1 hour project to get it working now.
Now let's figure. If your time is worth $80/hour and it will take you 4 hours to get the thing working, that's $320. How many terminals would you have to save yourself from buying in order to pay back your investment of time? If that's too much for you, I bet someone else would be glad to have your cast off PC hardware. In fact, I think I read something on the k-12 LTSP site relative to donating old PC's to schools for use with the LTSP software. You might at least get a tax writeoff for the old equipment.
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