-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 07 February 2002 8:46 am, Ian wrote:
How good is rdesktop with sound etc? Seems to me that a good stop gap might be to have a Windows terminal server to run "essential" windows educational software. I'll look into the prices of client access licences but it would be a lot cheaper than buying Windows XP at well over £100 on each machine.
Yes, this is exactly why I was interested in it. For a school migrating from Windows to Linux, the office software side of things is pretty much covered by KOffice/Open Office which will run natively, and do a pretty damn good job of opening MS Office files. However, this leads to the problem of how to run all the education software like science revisision programs, a few multimedia encyclopedias, etc. If you could just run directly from the X a Windows application that would appear and be window manager managed (using a windows based terminal server to execute the apps) this would go a long way to alleviating the problems :) - -- Cheers, Chris Howells -- chris@chrishowells.co.uk, howells@kde.org Web: http://chrishowells.co.uk, PGP key: http://chrishowells.co.uk/pgp.txt KDE: http://www.koffice.org, http://edu.kde.org, http://usability.kde.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE8Yu4qF8Iu1zN5WiwRAiwTAJ9L7UFVgEkTv0gb2/skkdAavqO0WgCbBWXc H28jhuJlBZcijKVOa8fJVOA= =YX4Q -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----