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Re: [school-discuss] From the News- PC Card Converts Old Desktop Computer into Thin Client

I'm curious as to what Daimler Chrysler bought, since Dell PCs have had PXE boot built into the BIOS for years, which is all they need to be thin clients. I've done several LTSP (Linux Terminal Server Project) installations for schools & businesses using a "bigger" (and usually new although it doesn't have to be) computer for the server and castoff old PC's as the clients. There isn't anything that needs to be added to PCs to make them thin clients.
LTSP drives the cost of computing down so low that schools can afford to have a computer lab in every classroom. Whether or not kids need much computer time in need in school is another matter, but if nothing else it makes it easier for the teachers because they don't have to try to share the computer lab with other classes because they have all that they need right in the classroom. 

Peter

Bill Ries-Knight wrote:

Thin-client vendor Igel is offering a $99 PC card that converts old desktop
PCs into (Linux) thin clients. It's a technology that Daimler Chrysler
recently decided to use to extend the life of its aging fleet of Dell
desktop PCs. Igel rival Wyse says the recession and other factors such as
virtualization, cloud computing and green IT have recently spurred more
rapid adoption of thin-client technology.As IT organizations look to extend
the lifetimes of their current fleets of PCs, some may soon be considering a
new option—converting the actual desktop computer into a Linux thin client.

That’s what Daimler Chrysler, the former owner of troubled U.S. automaker
Chrysler Holdings, was looking to do when it recently converted 1,000 of
its Dell <http://www.channelinsider.com/#> PCs into Linux thin clients using
a PC card available from Igel Technology, a longtime thin-client vendor
based in Germany.
....

read the whole story here...  It is now fully mainstream and reported as
used for education as well.

http://bit.ly/qY7wsR