[IAEP] [Sugar-devel] Getting data about the upgrading older machines and SoaS responsiveness.

[Jonas Smedegaard]

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On Sun, Jun 07, 2009 at 04:40:31PM -0500, David Farning wrote:
>On Sun, Jun 7, 2009 at 2:38 PM, David Van Assche<dvanassche at gmail.com> wrote:
>> That's a good point, and I understand the thinking behind it, as if 
>> you are not 'changing' anything in an existing setup, people are less 
>> afraid that things might go terribly wrong. That's the reason we have 
>> ltsp on a usb stick... because you can stick in a server, and test it 
>> without installing anything. Think of it as SoaS server with 
>> beaurocratic advantages included (taking care of networking, 
>> providing Sugar images, setting up user accounts, providng 
>> collaboration if necessary. It is by no means the XS server, nor 
>> should it try to be that, its just the desktop environment part with 
>> ejabberd, if needed.. of course, it only works in wired environments.
>
>Very cool.  I had not heard of LTSP on a usb stick before.

Great indeed.


>It sound like another great, low impact (I am trying to think of a term 
>like 'carbon foot print' to properly reflect the impact) way of 
>bringing LTSP into the class room.

"polite" or "gentle" perhaps?

or "non-invasive"?  Emphasizing what is avoided: invading - potentially 
taking over, accidentally or on purpose, the computers


Or did I misunderstand the kind of term you had in mind?



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  - jonas

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