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Re: [school-discuss] Re: [IIEP] Open ECDL / ICDL - we need your help
What/where was the original post in this thread?
thanks,
William Fragakis
morrisbrandon.com
On Tue, 2006-09-26 at 17:33 -0500, Rob Rittenhouse wrote:
> Geoffrey Hulme wrote:
> > Wayne, William
> > Can an ignorant fat client ask about "thin clients"? Will they be a
> > competitor for $100 laptops? What will they cost? What will they do?
> > Would people need to travel from say Sierra Leone to say South Africa to
> > set them up?
> > Geoff Hulme
>
> Well, I'm not Wayne or William but
>
> They are an alternative method for setting up a low maintenance lab. The
> chief benefit is that the clients are basically no-maintenance boxes and
> you can use old computers.
>
> Similar efforts to TuxLabs include the k12 Linux Terminal Server project
> (http://k12ltsp.org/ ).
>
> It's not really a competitor to the $100 laptop.
>