Difference between revisions of "What are "Thin Clients"? / What is LTSP? / What is Edubutu?"
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Since 1998 one of my colleagues at Seneca College, '''<font color="#000000"><font>''John Selmys''</font></font><font color="#000000"><font></font></font>''', experimented with a technique to cost-effectively connect old "junky" computers that did not have a hard disk drive to a more powerful computer server. When that computer department moved in 2005, it was discovered that those "ancient" machines were still being used by students to work on their assignments / perform homework... | Since 1998 one of my colleagues at Seneca College, '''<font color="#000000"><font>''John Selmys''</font></font><font color="#000000"><font></font></font>''', experimented with a technique to cost-effectively connect old "junky" computers that did not have a hard disk drive to a more powerful computer server. When that computer department moved in 2005, it was discovered that those "ancient" machines were still being used by students to work on their assignments / perform homework... | ||
The technology was developped by '''Jim MacQuillan''', and the project is called '''LTSP''' ('''<u>L</u>'''inux <u>'''T'''</u>erminal <u>'''S'''</u>erver <u>'''P'''</u>roject) the website is [http://ltsp.org/ ltsp.org] | The technology was developped by '''Jim MacQuillan''', and the project is called '''LTSP''' ('''<u>L</u>'''inux <u>'''T'''</u>erminal <u>'''S'''</u>erver <u>'''P'''</u>roject) the website is [http://ltsp.org/ ltsp.org] | ||
| − | Those workstations are referred to as "thin-clients" since most of the processing is performed by the server, and routine tasks (like accepting input from mouse & keyboard and displaying graphics on monitor) are performed just in the thin client's internal memory (RAM). | + | Those workstations are referred to as "'''thin-clients'''" since most of the processing is performed by the server, and routine tasks (like accepting input from mouse & keyboard and displaying graphics on monitor) are performed just in the thin client's internal memory (RAM). |
Revision as of 13:34, 26 October 2009
Since 1998 one of my colleagues at Seneca College, John Selmys, experimented with a technique to cost-effectively connect old "junky" computers that did not have a hard disk drive to a more powerful computer server. When that computer department moved in 2005, it was discovered that those "ancient" machines were still being used by students to work on their assignments / perform homework...
The technology was developped by Jim MacQuillan, and the project is called LTSP (Linux Terminal Server Project) the website is ltsp.org
Those workstations are referred to as "thin-clients" since most of the processing is performed by the server, and routine tasks (like accepting input from mouse & keyboard and displaying graphics on monitor) are performed just in the thin client's internal memory (RAM).
