[GRLUG] New Ubuntu Student Lab with MultiseatX

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From: "Ben Rousch" <brousch at gmail.com> 
To: grlug at grlug.org 
Sent: Thursday, October 1, 2009 11:05:28 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern 
Subject: Re: [GRLUG] New Ubuntu Student Lab with MultiseatX

On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 10:50 AM, Darrin Sculley <darrin at sculley.cc> wrote: 
> All, 
> First posting to this mailing list. Hello! Hope to meet you all at the 
> September meeting when its scheduled (or next meeting). 
> Newbie to Linux, so be patient with me. Lots of PC experience, but not with 
> Linux. 
> Looking to share stories. This past year, I helped the school that my 
> children attend to switch to Linux. New lab, with 32 seats. MultiseatX 
> with Ubuntu 9.04 connected to a Ubuntu server. Very challenging and fun to 
> build the computers and get Multiseat working. 
> Has anyone else out there tried Multiseat? 
> I would be glad to share specifics about hardware and configuration choices, 
> if the group is interested. 
> Darrin 

I toyed with LTSP a few years ago, but this sounds even better. I'd 
love to hear more about your setup! 

If I may, can I ask why this would be better? I've actually deployed LTSP in a production environment and it worked well. I guess I don't understand what the advantages would be over LTSP? video acceleration maybe? 
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