On Tuesday 17 April 2007 14:18, Steve Hargadon wrote: > On 4/16/07, Greg Dekoenigsberg <gdk@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > What should Red Hat be doing in the education space? > > Some more information on Indiana: > > They aren't using Linux thin client for a couple of reasons. First, > they are purchasing new, Dell and whitebox PCs for under $300, and > they get the benefit of thick-client usage. They use Ardence mostly > to stream down the full OS to each PC. According to some > conversations I've had with Mike, they haven't felt that LTSP would > give them the functionality that they want, and didn't see a huge > price savings. > > However, that may now be changing. One of their most difficult > hurdles is that the full PC generate a lot of heat, and they have to > upgrade the air conditioning in the school buildings--and that's > turning out to be a problem. Using some low-watt thin-clients may be > the answer for them. > > They are also experiencing some difficulties with Ardence. They were > bought by Citrix, which is owned by Microsoft. I've been in contact > with Mike from fl_TeacherTool, as he has visited a site in Canada that > is running thick-client streaming full FLOSS. Seems like this might > be a good option for them as well. I hadn't heard that part. My understanding is that Ardence is basically doing NFS root of a full OS. Which is similar to what LTSP 5 (muekow) is doing on Ubuntu and a few other distributions . -- Chuck Norris is a hack. MacGyver could build a gun from a paperclip and shoot Chuck Norris, then build a Stargate from a toaster and hide the body on some planet with no food whatsoever for when Chuck Norris wakes up. Public Key available Here: http://www.bravegnuworld.com/~rjune/pubkey.asc _______________________________________________ Fedora-education-list mailing list Fedora-education-list@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-education-list
