Thin Clients and Linux - The Linux Terminal Server Project

Autor(es) James McQuillan

Macrotema Desktop

Horário 04 de Junho - sábado, 16:00/17:00, 41A

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I will be presenting what LTSP is, and how you can use it to provide computing to many people, very inexpensively. I\'ll show the new features in the latest version, including local applications and local devices.

Corporations, schools, non-profits and government agencies are actively installing Linux on the desktop all over the world. LTSP simplifies this task by providing Thin Client support to Linux. This results in a very robust environment, minimizing costs and deployment time.

In addition to supporting new state-of-the-art Thin client computers, LTSP also allows you to re-use older computers as thin clients, thereby extending the life of those computers.

This session will provide an introduction to LTSP and an in-depth look at the new features of the latest version (LTSP-4.1). Also covered will be a cost comparison showing substantial savings by deploying Linux/LTSP versus the cost of a traditional PC network

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James McQuillan

Jim has been developing solutions for customers, utilizing Unix and networking since 1984 and has been involved with Linux since 1995. Jim has functioned as a Chief Technologist for more than 20 years and is responsible for the successful deployment of health care systems throughout the North Eastern United States. Jim is currently the President of the Michigan Unix Users Group (www.MUG.org) and is a member of the X.org Foundation board of directors. Additionally, Jim is the founder and project leader of the Linux Terminal Server Project (LTSP), an open source project which has received world wide recognition as the standard method of deploying Thin clients in a GNU/Linux environment.