[debian-edu-commits] [Debian Wiki] Update of "DebianEdu/BeforeGettingStarted" by WolfgangSchweer

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cleanup from outdated stuff

  
  Thin Client Computer Requirements
  
- The thin client computers themselves need to be of a very minimal standard. The minimum spec quoted for Skolelinux is around Pentium 1 133MHz with 24MB RAM. They mainly need to have a PXE or network bootable card (which costs about Eur20). They need no hard drive at all.
+ The thin client computers themselves need to be of a very minimal standard. They need no hard drive at all.
  
- You can therefore recycle old office computers, such as those typically donated to schools. These can't normally run up-to-date software but can be used as thin clients. Pessimistically, if you needed to spend Eur40 on each thin client and Eur4000 on a thin client server, the total hardware cost of 50 thin clients would be Eur6000 -- that is, Eur120 per computer. So thin clients are very economic too.
+ You can therefore recycle old office computers, such as those typically donated to schools. These can't normally run up-to-date software but can be used as thin clients. So thin clients are very economic too.
  
  Summary
  
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  Limitations of Thin Clients
  
  A little healthy scepticism should be injected at this point. Surely there must be some catch here. Can this really work as well as a normal desktop? The truth is that thin clients have certain limitations and these should be understood so as not to expect too much and be disappointed.
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- Floppys, USB disks, cameras, etc.
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- If you think about thin clients in terms of the "very long cables" model, if you wanted to access a floppy/usb drive, you would need to insert the disk into the computer way back in the server. This is effectively the case. So, even if you do see a floppy drive in the thin client, you probably cannot use it in practice.
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- Sound
  
  Just like the monitor, keyboard and mouse signal, it is possible to send the sound card signal (to your speakers) across the network. However, this is very costly in terms of network usage so it is not usually recommended for large scale deployment.