[ale] Converting 600 old laptops into K12LTSP thin clients for 1:1 ratio at a middle school

[dhhoward at comcast.net (Daniel Howard)]

Jeff Hubbs wrote:
> The only gotcha with old laptops is that many of their batteries will 
> likely have gone bad and are very expensive (think >$100) to replace.  
> So, having them run untethered may be a nonstarter.  Perhaps if you got 
> 1/5 of them set up as running LTSP nodes with good batteries, the rest 
> could be made into a MOSIX cluster to use as the LTSP app server.
> Us Gentoo types salivate at the distcc potential...
> 

I think the district folk would like to see all 600 back in the hands of 
students since the school was 1:1 when the program began.  And I think 
they'll be happy to buy boot, authentication/file, and app servers if it 
puts the laptops back into good use.

I'll have to research what a MOSIX cluster is, maybe then it'll ring a 
bell...

Daniel