PC Pro - OpenSource is no good for schools?

[Geoff]

Agreed. If you want to recycle your old PC's as Linux based Thin Clients for Windows Terminal Services/Citrix look at PXES.

 

http://www.2x.com/pxes/

[Ric_]

If anyone wants instructions (and a great disk for setting up) your old boxes as thin clients get in touch and I'll sort you out

[kingswood]

The 2x.com link looks very promising, I'll give you that. What I will do is test it this weekend at home and let you know how it goes- as a kind of live experiment ;-)

 

Time will tell...

 

Paul

[Ric_]

I use Etherboot and Thinstation - pester me tomorrow and I'll send you some stuff.

 

I use it with Citrix but the principal is the same for RDP.

[kevinmcaleer]

perhaps I'm just trying to highlight the fact that you don't have to use one thing or another when a combination can be so much more interesting. These reports are often one sided because they are trying to choose a solution based on a single product.

 

I completely agree. It's what a thing does thats important, not how it does it. I also quite like Windows 2003 and XP. I've seen Novell, implemented a few Linux servers and I use an Apple PowerBook at home.

 

Whenever I read magazines and they have the Windows vs Linux or PC's vs Macs question, I always think its rather strange; I can like beef and chicken, BBC1 and ITV, Xbox and Playstation. Black and white is not realistic, things are usually in the infinite greys of existence.

 

Nice post by the way DMcCoy.

 

-Kev

[redsnappa]

Most of the linux supporters here seem to think that school kid only need a OS & Office software.

What about all the english, maths, scienc and other educational software that is used in schools, are there open souurce equivalent for those?

[GrumbleDook]

EduBuntu is your friend, but also look at Open Source Schools, SchoolForge and School Forge UK for more information.

[eja40]

It is right to make the distinction between front and backend systems. I think the headache of getting actual staff and students to use non-Windows (or Mac) is so painful that it is out of the question. But the big benefits surely come from not having MS servers.

[mthomas08]

Nice discussion and have to agree with a lot of people here and I for one am usually Pro MS Vanilla Network. As NM I have received very little training although I do have access to the course materials and finding the time is extremely hard. Linux though probably is the best solution for No Budget schools and as was shown in another article with PC Donations its very possible to setup a PC Suite with Linux based client/server side builds with no money.

 

I am some times a little anti linux but I simply cannot deny the benefits of it especially when it is free. If only MS was free though

[CAM]

This thread is over half a decade old.

[mthomas08]

oops

 

I didnt bump it!