RE: [Sheflug] FYI: Migrating Education Desktops to Linux

["Dawson, Alan" <DawsonA [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Chris Johnson wrote:

> Of course going to thin client gives the possibility of
> further development
> so that pupils can get access to schools applications from
> home!  VLEs are
> OK for content but what about the applications?
> 

Remote X as used in LTSP style is pretty sucky over low bandwidth
connections (<10Mb)  There is a more bandwidth friendly version NX -
http://www.nomachine.com but i'm not sure if its FLOSS though :-(


> Sounds interesting.  Any suggestions as to where to look to
> find out more?
> 

I always liked the idea of the debian apt repository.  You could have all
the packages for your standard build in your local apt-repository, and all
the workstations doing a "apt-get upgrade" via cron, or at boot.  Then you
can distribute new packages/ updates etc just by changing version numbers on
the central repository.  Not that I've ever done it though ;-)


Alan Dawson
-- 
ICT Services
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