minus-squaremarkstos@lemmy.worldtoLinux@lemmy.ml•I swapped the entire school computers to linux mintlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 year agoThere is way to do this that works with even older computers and is easy to manage. That’s with Edubuntu and thin-client computing using the Linux Terminal Server project, LTSP. https://help.ubuntu.com/community/EdubuntuDocumentation/EdubuntuCookbook/Chapter_5_-_Thin-Client_Computing In that model, you install Linux once on a server. Each computer in the lab is set to boot over the network from the server. This way there is one computer to maintain, the users can’t access root and all the storage is centralized. Even old computers with low CPU and RAM and no hard drive can make good thin clients. A number of schools have been using this approach for 15+ years. https://www.edubuntu.org/ linkfedilink
There is way to do this that works with even older computers and is easy to manage.
That’s with Edubuntu and thin-client computing using the Linux Terminal Server project, LTSP.
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/EdubuntuDocumentation/EdubuntuCookbook/Chapter_5_-_Thin-Client_Computing
In that model, you install Linux once on a server. Each computer in the lab is set to boot over the network from the server.
This way there is one computer to maintain, the users can’t access root and all the storage is centralized.
Even old computers with low CPU and RAM and no hard drive can make good thin clients.
A number of schools have been using this approach for 15+ years.
https://www.edubuntu.org/