Re: [school-discuss] Re: [IIEP] Open ECDL / ICDL - we need your help

[Rob Rittenhouse <rob@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

William Fragakis wrote:
> What/where was the original post in this thread?
>
> thanks,
> William Fragakis
> morrisbrandon.com

It's from another mailing list from the International Institute for 
Educational Planning ([IIEP] see 
http://www.unesco.org/iiep/virtualuniversity/forums.php) that apparently 
copies to school-discuss.
--
Rob Rittenhouse

> 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.