Check in with your local County Office of Education or local county gvt office.* On Fridays,*they hold a county surplus sale, everything electronic that the county has can be transfered into our inventory wihtout cost as its "recycling".* I managed to get all 15 classroom HP 4000 network printers(yes they are old but they work and its just ordering 1 type of tonor rather then 15 different ones * I also picked up a full set of functional 32 hp vectras for student pc's, (pIV 1.4 gig, 800 fsb).* And occasionaly*sometimes you get real gems.* We picked up 4 HP 2100's with nics that the county library had.* Their counters red* 7 to 9k wich isn't too bad for a used printer.* they replaced them as their grant paid for new ones.** If you are a member of a school district, they occasionally have the same sales as well.

*
Good hunting,
*
Lt. Don E. Davie
La Sierra Military Academy


On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 9:31 AM, Jeffrey LePage <jeffrey_lepage@yahoo.com> wrote:

Greetings,

At our school we have a bunch of old laptops (vintage 1999, PII 400MHz, 256MB RAM). *Believe it or not they're still fairly functional. *They're running Xubuntu, but with openbox instead of XFCE. *With openbox and a few other tweaks I've been able to extend their useful life significantly. *However, we really need to get some better hardware, or find a better solution.


I tried to get LTSP running on these machines, but because of the lack of *PXE support in pcmcia I was unable to get a decent LTSP setup running.

I was wondering: has anyone used VNC or other remote desktop technologies as an alternative to a full-fledged LTSP setup? *If so, does sound work?



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On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 9:31 AM, Jeffrey LePage
<jeffrey_lepage@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> At our school we have a bunch of old laptops (vintage 1999, PII 400MHz, 256MB RAM). Believe it or not they're still fairly functional. They're running Xubuntu, but with openbox instead of XFCE. With openbox and a few other tweaks I've been able to extend their useful life significantly. However, we really need to get some better hardware, or find a better solution.
>
> I tried to get LTSP running on these machines, but because of the lack of PXE support in pcmcia I was unable to get a decent LTSP setup running.
>

Have you looked at etherbooting these instead of pxebooting? This can
be done from a floppy (I'm assuming your thinclients have floppy
drives) http://etherboot.org/wiki/etherboot-software and
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuLTSP/LTSPEtherbootSetup

cheers,
Sameer

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