Re: Ubuntu Server with LTSP in real life
- From: Brian Fahrlander <brian@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2007 21:59:13 -0500
Michael T. Richter wrote:
On Fri, 2007-30-03 at 03:37 -0500, Brian Fahrlander wrote:
Second, Paul, that's very cool; I started in LTSP back when
Etherboot had just changed over, probably about 1996-97. I had 12 users
running old tired 486's in a lumber yard, and only a couple of things
caused me grief:
Aren't diskless workstations just another word for "single point of
massive failure"? I've never understood the appeal in this day and age
where you can get old P/P2 (and even P3) hardware *complete with disk*
for a song and a dance. What am I missing?
The server is a key point, for sure...but administration on them is
ULTRA simple. And the memory and disk is _shared_, part of the economy.
They're mostly used in business environments, since sound is/was a
little difficult.
But a single server for LTSP isn't any more silly than a single
Microsoft server. (Well, except that there's no CircusWare making your
life a living hell). Take viruses and other garbage out of the mix and
there's almost no reason to ever reboot.
And when, like in the City of Largo, they find that getting
workstations for $5 instead of $300 makes good fiscal sense, too. In
fact, most of the time the very same machine you'd upgrade so you could
run Vista as a server would be the exact machine that would host 15-20
or more LTSP, $5 workstations. I know we were running 12 busy
workstations on a P2/800 with no problems or delays; it's very
economical. Not to mention a lot of fun.
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