Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on September 23, 2006 05:14 AM
LTSP totally *rocks*. I've got K12LTSP in a few schools, very much under the covers, and not only does it work really well, not only did the kids take to it like ducks to water, but even the teachers like it. We got fifteen laptops donated to us a while back, but they didn't have hard disks. Fortunately, they do support PXE-booting.<nobr> <wbr></nobr>:-) Thus, we ended up with a new computer lab of fifteen "new" stations, and the second-graders love it. The LTSP server is a plain-vanilla 3GHz hyperthreading Pentium 4 with a 160GB hard disk, stuffed with 3GB DRAM (DRAM's cheap now). Works great!
I've used old Power Mac, Pentium-166, Dell Optiplex GX1's, and UltraSPARC (Sun Ultra 5) computers as thin clients, all simultaneously, all running off the same LTSP server (yes, you can do that!). One of them was a NuBus Power Mac 5260, from way, way back; even with Mac OS 7.6.1, it was so slow that I would've assigned this box only to someone I really, really didn't like. Put it in LTSP mode, though, and even at 640x480x256, it became useable again. BTW, Sun Ultra 5's make quite good LTSP clients if you happen to have some of those. The CompSci kids, even though they know very well what's really happening in the background, nonetheless think they're so 1337 for sitting at "the Sun boxes."<nobr> <wbr></nobr>:-)
Thank you, Jim McQuillan, for leading this project! You have saved three of my schools a HELL of a lot of money and have made some of my teachers' lives a LOT easier.
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Posted by: Anonymous Coward on September 23, 2006 05:14 AMI've used old Power Mac, Pentium-166, Dell Optiplex GX1's, and UltraSPARC (Sun Ultra 5) computers as thin clients, all simultaneously, all running off the same LTSP server (yes, you can do that!). One of them was a NuBus Power Mac 5260, from way, way back; even with Mac OS 7.6.1, it was so slow that I would've assigned this box only to someone I really, really didn't like. Put it in LTSP mode, though, and even at 640x480x256, it became useable again. BTW, Sun Ultra 5's make quite good LTSP clients if you happen to have some of those. The CompSci kids, even though they know very well what's really happening in the background, nonetheless think they're so 1337 for sitting at "the Sun boxes."<nobr> <wbr></nobr>:-)
Thank you, Jim McQuillan, for leading this project! You have saved three of my schools a HELL of a lot of money and have made some of my teachers' lives a LOT easier.
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