The Power of Thin Clients

Mark Stosberg recently posted a great letter to the Richmond, IN community schools system about leveraging linux-based thin-client labs to cut costs and bring quality software to students. I couldn't be more enthusiastic!

I used to think the best thing to do with aging hardware was to build your own cluster, run BCCD on it, and climb the ranks of folding at home. But fixing them up as thin client machines for donating to schools and other community labs is a more immediately useful solution.

Now I wonder if this same architecture could be used on Earlham's campus?