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* Computer lab was designed to provide users with full computer usability at a '''low setup and maintenance cost'''.
* Administrator '''only has to install / update software on main server''' instead of maintaining software for each workstation, or "ghosting" images on each machine to keep system up-to-date...
* Linux system '''has automatic and free security updates and does not require anti-virus sofware'''. Linux system runs a free and effective firewall for protection from the Internet...
* '''Diskless Workstations (a.k.a. "Thin Clients") are hooked up to a central server.''' In the Computer Lab, it is '''<u>not</u> necessary to have workstations use the hard drive'''. The hard-drives were removed from the workstations to be used with other computer systems in the church. Other computers that contain hard drives allow the option of "Dual Boot" (i.e. boot Ubuntu Linux from machine or boot from the network).
* (Diskless) Workstations can '''run applications from the main serve'''r <u>or</u> '''run applications from diskless workstation (eg. memory cache)'''...
