LTSP Advice

[Leo J Mauler]

On Sat, 24 Jan 2004 23:02:15 -0600 Jim Herrmann <kclug at ItDepends.com>
writes:
> I have a friend who owns a small business.  He is 
> remodeling the workspace he and his employees use 
> and he'd like to really modernize in the process.  The 
> things he and his employees need are very well 
> covered by linux, and he is seriously considering it.  
> The main application they use runs on a unix server, 
> which they access through a terminal interface.  
> Definitely no problem there.  They also need mail, a 
> shared calendar, a spreadsheet, a little bit of publishing, 
> and they use Quicken a little.  I can show him Linux 
> equivalents and Cross-Over Office, and let him choose 
> what he thinks will work best for them.
> 
> Here's the thing that sounded appealing to him, then he 
> took it a little farther.  I told him about running everything 
> on a server and just have some simple X terminals on 
> each person's workstation.  I'm starting to look at 
> ltsp.org, but thought I would see if any of you guys had 
> any experience you could share.  The other thing he 
> thought would be great would be if these terminals could 
> all be wireless, including the printers.  Then the only wires 
> that would be required in the office would be power.  
> That would be cool, but I'm not sure if the technology 
> is there yet.
> 
> Opinions?

Yes: the technology is already there.

Have him install a WAP in his office and put wireless 
NICs in all his X terminals.

No wires except power cables.  Everyone gets X 
over IP.

Like the mathematician in the old joke: Leo exclaims 
"A Solution Exists!" and goes back to bed.  :)

...and wakes up with a night sweat: can you segment 
a wireless network?

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