On Sat, 27 Dec 2003, Fraser Campbell wrote:

Desktop installs are a waste of time for any organization of significant size. For thin client installs older PCs (probably even 486s) are more than capable of running the latest and greatest stuff, you just run the heavy stuff on the server.

Absolutely. Many times I've seen people amazed with the capabilites of a thinclient. Too many people are still convinced that a computer needs to be near a person to be useful[1]. [1] Of course the thinclient itself is a computer but little processing is done there. More importantly, no important data is saved there. One of the most important things about a thinclients is that you don't care if they break since they are all interchangeable from the users point of view. Rob -- Robert Brockway Senior Technical Consultant, OpenTrend Solutions Ltd. Phone: 416-669-3073, Email: rbrockway-wgAaPJgzrDxH4x6Dk/4f9A at public.gmane.org, http://www.opentrend.net OpenTrend Solutions: Reliable, secure solutions to real world problems. -- The Toronto Linux Users Group. Meetings: http://tlug.ss.org TLUG requests: Linux topics, No HTML, wrap text below 80 columns How to UNSUBSCRIBE: http://tlug.ss.org/subscribe.shtml