thin client or stand alone - which is better?

[Jay Perez]

Hi Jim,

I had successfully set up a configuration at home (with lots of help from this and other sites of friendly experts) that gave me the option to select how I wanted a computer to boot up.

This allowed me to either let a PC boot up off the network by default (and therefore thin-client to my Edubuntu server) or press escape and boot up off the local harddrive.  By doing so, I basically had the option on every machine to chose whether I wanted to boot thin or fat client depending on the type of work I wanted to do and the capabilities of the specific machine.  Although I was doing this using Edubuntu and Windoz I suspect it would work using Linux as the fat-client also.

Maybe another way of looking at this ...

Jay

-- Jim Hutchinson <jim at ubuntu-rocks.org> wrote:
Thanks for all the feedback. It seems that having both fat and thin
would be ideal but I don't have that option. I only have the one lab
and it may be difficult to keep it as we continue to grow.

I think the admin benefits of a thin-client currently outweigh the
speed benefits of a fat-client and given I know how to do the
thin-client and all the authentication it may not be worth it to
switch. I would be curious to learn more about running fat-clients
with a thin-client component (i.e. local installs with auth and home
dirs on the server). If there is a way to "push" packages to the
clients as well (I know we have a tool in our district for this on
windows) that would even be better.

Thanks again. Any additional thoughts would be appreciated.

Jim


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