K12LTSP LINUX :No Antivirus required: and advantages

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Advantages of K12LTSP (OR LTSP):

1.Hardware cost reduced

2.Centralized install and management and administration

3.Saving on Electric power (clients could be low power consuming
processors like Pentiu I,no hdd, no cd-rom, system fan small)

4.Redundant server can be afforded ( which can be used for backing up
live server)

5.Users can login in any client to access their individual saved files

6.Software cost zero

7.Virus probability very very less.

8.Clients will process the input and display which can be considered a
type of parallel processing to increase the performance and reduce
burden on the server.

9.Less sound pollution (no hard disks making sound , less noise of
fan)

10.Less enviromental pollution (less power consumption )

11.Security (children or even adults cannot delete others files or
damage the system)

12.All users can have their own desktop settings no matter which
client they use

13.Almost all the daily use softwares, programmers tools and
interesting educational games are available .

14.Fedora (RedHat) users community, k12ltsp users community is helpful
to solve problems .

15.In future when the thin clients become popular, thinclients of the
size of a walkman may be available which will improve reliability much
further (very low power consumption, very low cost clients, space
saving).

16.Maintenance manpower is very less and no need of a seperate
administrator as the teachers or common person can do any routine
administration tasks

17.Computer users frustration is reduced because of so many defects of
proprietory softwares .

18.Clients are very lighter in weight. Even young people can easily
shift the clients.

16.Space saving by using small thin clients

17.Clients don't require Air conditioned or dustless rooms

18.New versions of software or new software needs only to be installed
once at the server.

19.Clients need very little maintenance(no moving parts,low power) .
Can be easily replaced with little cost.

20.Future proof and open technologies

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And your point..?

"TourIndia" <aanil_kumar2003@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:3cc1837a.0401130439.1b801d1@posting.google.com...
> k12adv1
>
> Advantages of K12LTSP (OR LTSP):
>
> 1.Hardware cost reduced
>
> 2.Centralized install and management and administration
>
> 3.Saving on Electric power (clients could be low power consuming
> processors like Pentiu I,no hdd, no cd-rom, system fan small)
>
> 4.Redundant server can be afforded ( which can be used for backing up
> live server)
>
> 5.Users can login in any client to access their individual saved files
>
> 6.Software cost zero
>
> 7.Virus probability very very less.
>
> 8.Clients will process the input and display which can be considered a
> type of parallel processing to increase the performance and reduce
> burden on the server.
>
> 9.Less sound pollution (no hard disks making sound , less noise of
> fan)
>
> 10.Less enviromental pollution (less power consumption )
>
> 11.Security (children or even adults cannot delete others files or
> damage the system)
>
> 12.All users can have their own desktop settings no matter which
> client they use
>
> 13.Almost all the daily use softwares, programmers tools and
> interesting educational games are available .
>
> 14.Fedora (RedHat) users community, k12ltsp users community is helpful
> to solve problems .
>
> 15.In future when the thin clients become popular, thinclients of the
> size of a walkman may be available which will improve reliability much
> further (very low power consumption, very low cost clients, space
> saving).
>
> 16.Maintenance manpower is very less and no need of a seperate
> administrator as the teachers or common person can do any routine
> administration tasks
>
> 17.Computer users frustration is reduced because of so many defects of
> proprietory softwares .
>
> 18.Clients are very lighter in weight. Even young people can easily
> shift the clients.
>
> 16.Space saving by using small thin clients
>
> 17.Clients don't require Air conditioned or dustless rooms
>
> 18.New versions of software or new software needs only to be installed
> once at the server.
>
> 19.Clients need very little maintenance(no moving parts,low power) .
> Can be easily replaced with little cost.
>
> 20.Future proof and open technologies
>
> Post a follow-up to this message

Actually an anti-virus would be required if you were going to set up a
mail server to protect your windows users who use it. Even if it was just
as a courtesy.

--
jafar

TourIndia wrote:

> 18.Clients are very lighter in weight. Even young people can easily
> shift the clients.

Not sure that is an advantage....

On Tue, 13 Jan 2004 08:24:04 -0600, "William Morris"
<news.remove.this.and.the.dots@seamlyne.com> wrote:

>And your point..?

It's a K12 educational Linux distro which acts as a terminal server,
i.e., a thin client Linux system. I did a Google to find out.

BTW, avoid top posting and snip excess quoted material in posts. It's
considered good form on Usenet.


--
Richard Steven Hack
"Whatever does not kill me makes me stronger" -
and YOU have not killed me!

On Tue, 13 Jan 2004 14:33:34 +0000, jafar <me@home.fr> wrote:

>Actually an anti-virus would be required if you were going to set up a
>mail server to protect your windows users who use it. Even if it was just
>as a courtesy.

I think his point is that this is a thin client server based on Linux
for schools. Windows could be dumped altogether for less vulnerable
client software and hardware, I assume. I didn't research it enough
to tell if that's feasible, I just Googled to find out what it is.


--
Richard Steven Hack
"Whatever does not kill me makes me stronger" -
and YOU have not killed me!