[Wylug-discuss] Thin Clients

[Rob Hall]

Hello folks,

I've been asked to look at contributing to a feasibility study for the 
following scenario.

We are looking at the possibility of moving away from desktop machines in our 
computer suites and towards thin clients. The rationale behind this is that 
as money is squeezed from our budgets we need to extend the life expectancy 
of the machines we have in our college. As we have a large number of 
perfectly serviceable machines which are now needing replacement we figured 
we could use them as thin client terminals until they die a death. After that 
we would replace them with something like the JackPC.

Our current situation is a Windows S2k3 environment which we would need to put 
a thin client front-end to for some of our suites (around 120 machines) and 
we are looking at a number of solutions - one of which would be to use a 
Linux based TC server and Client which would RDP into the Windows back-end 
servers.

Has anyone done anything like this before or push me off in the right 
direction. I've done a fair bit of digging and it looks pretty possible but, 
as ever, the devil is in the detail. I'm just vaguely excited that we might 
get the penguin into our server room!!

TIA

Rob