<html><head><style type='text/css'>p { margin: 0; }</style></head><body><div style='font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000'><br>From: "Ben Rousch" <brousch@gmail.com><br>To: grlug@grlug.org<br>Sent: Thursday, October 1, 2009 11:05:28 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern<br>Subject: Re: [GRLUG] New Ubuntu Student Lab with MultiseatX<br><br>On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 10:50 AM, Darrin Sculley <darrin@sculley.cc> wrote:<br>> All,<br>> First posting to this mailing list. Hello! Hope to meet you all at the<br>> September meeting when its scheduled (or next meeting).<br>> Newbie to Linux, so be patient with me. Lots of PC experience, but not with<br>> Linux.<br>> Looking to share stories. This past year, I helped the school that my<br>> children attend to switch to Linux. New lab, with 32 seats. MultiseatX<br>> with Ubuntu 9.04 connected to a Ubuntu server. Very challenging and fun to<br>> build the computers and get Multiseat working.<br>> Has anyone else out there tried Multiseat?<br>> I would be glad to share specifics about hardware and configuration choices,<br>> if the group is interested.<br>> Darrin<br><br>I toyed with LTSP a few years ago, but this sounds even better. I'd<br>love to hear more about your setup!<br><br>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?<br></div></body></html>