[opensuse] thin clients
I have a client that wants to set up a room in her daycare for older kids to play educational games. I was already looking at the Education LIfe, but my question is: Is it a good idea to just set up thin clients to load the image? These computers would not be online at all. It's not a tight budget, but I would like to keep it reasonable, and I think this would be cheaper than 10 full machines. What is a good thin client product? -- Michael Dunsavage Please excuse any typos or brevity. This message may have been sent via my mobile device. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
On Sun, 1 Feb 2015 21:34, Michael Dunsavage <mikesd81@...> wrote:
I have a client that wants to set up a room in her daycare for older kids to play educational games. I was already looking at the Education LIfe, but my question is:
Is it a good idea to just set up thin clients to load the image? These computers would not be online at all.
It's not a tight budget, but I would like to keep it reasonable, and I think this would be cheaper than 10 full machines. What is a good thin client product?
Well, best overall support in big scenarios that I've ever seen was IGEL, (I'm talking using Office, Mail, etc as Thin-client from a session-server) But also in smaller scenarios their clients give very good figures. Have a look, the models that I have to installs the most are the UD5 and UD6 https://www.igel.com/en/ https://www.igel.com/products/thin-client-zero-client-hardware/hardware-over... Other wise you can also use the more and more available mini-computers like Intel-NUC for example and configure them the same way. Price and goal are the decisive factors. Hint: those PC in a HDMI stick are not what you want, even a Raspberry B+ model is much better. (that's what, 50 buck inclusive casing?) - Yamaban -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
On 2/1/2015 12:34 PM, Michael Dunsavage wrote:
I have a client that wants to set up a room in her daycare for older kids to play educational games. I was already looking at the Education LIfe, but my question is:
Is it a good idea to just set up thin clients to load the image? These computers would not be online at all.
It's not a tight budget, but I would like to keep it reasonable, and I think this would be cheaper than 10 full machines. What is a good thin client product?
Maybe go to Amazon.com and search "Thin Clients" Some are pretty cheap. But you still have to add screen and keyboard. You can also find all in one computers starting around a couple hindered bucks. Not mentioned is what OS you intend to run on them, or where you were going to get these educational games? Wouldn't inexpensive tablets be an appropriate choice as well? -- _____________________________________ ---This space for rent--- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
On Sun, Feb 1, 2015 at 3:58 PM, John Andersen <jsamyth@gmail.com> wrote:
On 2/1/2015 12:34 PM, Michael Dunsavage wrote:
I have a client that wants to set up a room in her daycare for older kids to play educational games. I was already looking at the Education LIfe, but my question is:
Is it a good idea to just set up thin clients to load the image? These computers would not be online at all.
It's not a tight budget, but I would like to keep it reasonable, and I think this would be cheaper than 10 full machines. What is a good thin client product?
Maybe go to Amazon.com and search "Thin Clients" Some are pretty cheap. But you still have to add screen and keyboard. You can also find all in one computers starting around a couple hindered bucks.
Not mentioned is what OS you intend to run on them, or where you were going to get these educational games?
Wouldn't inexpensive tablets be an appropriate choice as well?
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I mentioned in the initial email I was looking at the Suse Education Life. These computers would be for kids around 12 years old, and security is a concern. As in they don't want to to be too portable. If I were do to do laptops, I was going to lock them down with security bars. -- Michael Dunsavage Please excuse any typos or brevity. This message may have been sent via my mobile device. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
On 2/1/2015 1:17 PM, Michael Dunsavage wrote:
I mentioned in the initial email I was looking at the Suse Education Life.
Actually I had to Google Education Life, because I had no idea what you were talking about, since your original message didn't mention SUSE Education Life. All I found was a magazine. -- _____________________________________ ---This space for rent--- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
On Sun, Feb 1, 2015 at 4:42 PM, John Andersen <jsamyth@gmail.com> wrote:
On 2/1/2015 1:17 PM, Michael Dunsavage wrote:
I mentioned in the initial email I was looking at the Suse Education Life.
Actually I had to Google Education Life, because I had no idea what you were talking about, since your original message didn't mention SUSE Education Life.
All I found was a magazine.
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I should have states Suse Educational Life. My apologies. https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Education-Li-f-e -- Michael Dunsavage Please excuse any typos or brevity. This message may have been sent via my mobile device. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
http://www.ltsp.org/, which is available for openSUSE. On Sun, Feb 1, 2015 at 10:47 PM, Michael Dunsavage <mikesd81@gmail.com> wrote:
On Sun, Feb 1, 2015 at 4:42 PM, John Andersen <jsamyth@gmail.com> wrote:
On 2/1/2015 1:17 PM, Michael Dunsavage wrote:
I mentioned in the initial email I was looking at the Suse Education Life.
Actually I had to Google Education Life, because I had no idea what you were talking about, since your original message didn't mention SUSE Education Life.
All I found was a magazine.
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I should have states Suse Educational Life. My apologies.
https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Education-Li-f-e
-- Michael Dunsavage
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On Sun, 1 Feb 2015 15:34:18 -0500 Michael Dunsavage <mikesd81@gmail.com> wrote:
I have a client that wants to set up a room in her daycare for older kids to play educational games. I was already looking at the Education LIfe, but my question is:
Is it a good idea to just set up thin clients to load the image? These computers would not be online at all.
It's not a tight budget, but I would like to keep it reasonable, and I think this would be cheaper than 10 full machines. What is a good thin client product?
The new Raspberry Pi version 2 has a quad core ARMv7 processor, 1GB of RAM and is STILL $35. You could use them as thin clients or full machines. They are backordered, it will take a while to get them. Raspbian runs great on them. Opensuse for them is a work in progress. One of the charms is you won't mind too much if someone breaks one or steals one. Buy several extra. I suspect after using them the kids will want one for home. Bill -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
Bill Merriam wrote:
On Sun, 1 Feb 2015 15:34:18 -0500 Michael Dunsavage <mikesd81@gmail.com> wrote:
I have a client that wants to set up a room in her daycare for older kids to play educational games. I was already looking at the Education LIfe, but my question is:
Is it a good idea to just set up thin clients to load the image? These computers would not be online at all.
It's not a tight budget, but I would like to keep it reasonable, and I think this would be cheaper than 10 full machines. What is a good thin client product?
The new Raspberry Pi version 2 has a quad core ARMv7 processor, 1GB of RAM and is STILL $35. You could use them as thin clients or full machines.
I have some thin clients with 1Gb of memory, they're mostly okay, but not with e.g. openoffice. -- Per Jessen, Zürich (0.3°C) http://www.hostsuisse.com/ - virtual servers, made in Switzerland. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
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