[IAEP] Ncomputing

[Walter Bender]

The Resara guys have done a lot of good work in this area already.
They made a report at Sugar Camp, but I don't know if there are
associated tickets.

-walter

On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 8:38 AM, Tomeu Vizoso <tomeu at sugarlabs.org> wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 13, 2008 at 15:18, David Van Assche <dvanassche at gmail.com> wrote:
>> LTSP deployments range in the millions worldwide, and are definitely a
>> necessary target for Sugar. Macedonia is just a small example of what
>> has been done elsewhere with terminals that are far cheaper than the
>> falsely advertised $100 laptops. In Brazil alone, there are millions
>> of computers running LTSP on top of k12linux or edubuntu. Sugar Labs
>> should be taking serious notice of thin client technology and adapting
>> the UI to work for it.
>
> I agree with you. Do we have an idea of what needs to be done to sugar
> in order to adapt it as best as possible to LTSP environments? Would
> be nice to have a tracker ticket in dev.sugarlabs.org about LTSP
> improvements.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Tomeu
>
>> LTSP has been around for 10 years now, and as
>> much as people talk about cloud computing, thin clients are getting
>> more available and common, not less...
>>
>> kind Regards,
>> David Van Assche
>> www.nubae.com
>>
>> On Sat, Dec 13, 2008 at 6:13 AM, Edward Cherlin <echerlin at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 1:18 PM, Walter Bender <walter.bender at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> I had a pissing match with their founder in the WSJ about a year
>>>> ago...
>>>
>>> I saw that written up at OLPC News. Yes, Ncomputing is still at it,
>>> just like Intel and Microsoft. Competition, you know. Can't have that.
>>> ^_^
>>>
>>>> I didn't get any straight answers from him about costs or
>>>> learning.
>>>
>>> Nothing usable on the site yesterday. Most of the site is down today.
>>>
>>>> But Sugar on their Ubuntu thin client sounds doable.
>>>
>>> Perhaps we should have a word with Macedonia and some other countries.
>>> We can't leave all of the sales work to Nicholas any more.
>>>
>>> http://www.computerweekly.com/Articles/2007/09/17/226807/macedonia-rolls-out-ncomputing-clients-for-all-school.htm
>>>
>>> 180,000 units
>>>
>>> 1.8 M in India...
>>>
>>>> -walter
>>>>
>>>> On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 4:15 PM, Edward Cherlin <echerlin at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>> Has anybody evaluated Ncomputing's claims on cost, power, and the like
>>>>> for school deployments? For example,
>>>>>
>>>>> http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/Interview/Stephen_Dukker_CEO_Ncomputing/articleshow/3820649.cms
>>>>> http://www.ncomputing.com/republic-of-macedonia.aspx
>>>>>
>>>>> They run Ubuntu (or Windows) over thin clients, so they could run
>>>>> Sugar once the packaging problems are fixed (The journal currently
>>>>> saves precisely nothing). Has anybody talked with them?
>>>>>
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