What, no LTSP or NX?

On May 19th, 2005 Anonymous (not verified) says:

I'm very astonished to see that there seem to be single-PC setups in the various pools exclusively.
Especially with weak 32MB Pentium machines (are they still in use now?), going towards a server-based setup with LTSP or NoMachine access would probably make a LOT more sense than individual installations, which:
- have to be maintained separately (ok, imaging and NIS etc., so it doesn't have to be that problematic)
- have slow performance due to using the local CPU instead of the server via nicely compressed connections on a 100Mbps network

With LTSP, I imagine you just keep a number of spare machines around, if one machine goes down, then rip it out and replace it with the new one and that's it, maybe 10 minutes.

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