Still confused. :)
Anyway, yes, a thin client does not have a hard drive or any moving
parts. That's why you buy them. It's like buying a monitor. Very similar
to a serial terminal but with graphics. Same benefits too. Ease of
management and no need to "update" anything, thankfully.
Some sites do buy a fully loaded XP box for each terminal and then run
the RDP client from there, often because they can't see why they would
spend $600 on a thin client machine when you can spend $600 on a PC, but
then they usually don't save nearly as much because they still have a
high management burden.
UNIX people know this drill. I know that at LSU, when I went, the UNIX
labs had nothing but X terms everywhere. No muss or fuss.
You often see this type of setup in hospitals and other large sites
where you need access to several critical applications, but there is no
need for a general purpose PC (which is the case 80% of the time).
-- Dustin Puryear President and Sr. Consultant Puryear Information Technology, LLC 225-706-8414 x112 http://www.puryear-it.com Author, "Best Practices for Managing Linux and UNIX Servers" http://www.puryear-it.com/pubs/linux-unix-best-practices/ Ron Johnson wrote: > > Asking questions. > > On 08/05/08 16:40, Dustin Puryear wrote: >> I guess I'm just totally confused by what you are asking/trying to say >> then. Were you agreeing, disagreeing, asking a question? I'm lost! :) >> >> -- >> Dustin Puryear >> President and Sr. Consultant >> Puryear Information Technology, LLC >> 225-706-8414 x112 >> http://www.puryear-it.com >> >> Author, "Best Practices for Managing Linux and UNIX Servers" >> http://www.puryear-it.com/pubs/linux-unix-best-practices/ >> >> >> Ron Johnson wrote: >>> >>> That's why I contrasted "complete" vs. thin... >>> >>> On 08/05/08 16:31, Dustin Puryear wrote: >>>> I'm thinking you aren't familiar with thin clients used in Windows >>>> TS situations. The whole idea is that there is no hard drive or any >>>> moving parts. It's basically just a little piece of plastic that you >>>> throw on the network to use to connect to Windows TS. As far as >>>> booting locally, they boot from firmware. >>>> >>>> >>>> Ron Johnson wrote: >>>>> On 08/05/08 14:06, Dustin Puryear wrote: >>>>>> I don't understand what you mean by: 'Because the driver of cost >>>>>> is the number of "complete computers"?' What do you mean "complete >>>>>> computer"? You mean with a keyboard and monitor? > ___________________ Nolug mailing list nolug@nolug.orgReceived on 08/06/08
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