[ale] LTSP

[wolf at wolfhalton.info]

1. Easiest solution would be to look at the free stuff on craigslist and
get a monitor.  I have done this 8 or 9 times.  That solves the issue
with seeing what the dell is doing. 
          That gives you more time to figure out if you want to continue
the thin-client project.
2. The laptop has to be able to boot to be a thin client.  Can you
network-boot it?


-----Original Message-----
From: Joshua Kite <jwkite at gmail.com>
Reply-to: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts - Yes! We run Linux! <ale at ale.org>
To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts <ale at ale.org>
Subject: [ale] LTSP
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 2009 09:44:58 -0500

The Windows laptop that my young boys have been using for the past year
is finally giving up the ghost.  We gave it to them when we thought the
hard drive was going to die, but it's somehow managed to creep along.  I
have an opportunity to buy a very reasonably priced older Dell 650
workstation which would be more than sufficient for anything they would
want to do.  My plan is to install Ubuntu since they like playing all of
the games installed on my desktop.

I don't currently have a monitor lying around, and I'd rather avoid
buying something else, if at all possible, so I was wondering if I could
make the "new" workstation an LTSP server (probably using Edubuntu) and
run the laptop as a client, possibly as a dual boot in the rare event
that they needed to use something that wouldn't run on Wine.  My
research has led to three questions which are probably obvious, but I
may have to make a buy decision today, and I'm running out of Googlefu.

1) Assuming a decent server and a hardwired network, how well would
games play in such a setup?  Their favorite at the moment is Extreme Tux
Racer.
2) Are there any issues in using a laptop as a thin client?
3) If I later wanted to put a monitor and keyboard on the workstation,
could it continue to act as a LTSP server to the client while someone
was using it as a desktop?

If any of you have insight that you think would be useful for a
moderately competent Linux user who has never worked with Terminal
Servers, I would greatly appreciate it.

Thanks,

Josh Kite

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