The Open Source movement can help many people and institutions in Latin America by giving them access to technologies and knowledge that are otherwise restricted to developed countries. The lack of ...

What may have been lost among the acquisition, lawsuit and product announcements at last week’s LinuxWorld Expo was the release of the latest iteration of the Linux Terminal Server Project (LTSP) ...

Technology moves at a lightning-fast pace. A brand new desktop computer has an average lifespan of two to five years, after which both its hardware and its software have become obsolete. For ...

I haven't had much opportunity recently to play with LTSP within any of the major distributions. Ubuntu is my desktop OS of choice everywhere except on my Mac, but the Linux Terminal Server Project, ...

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Computers are becoming pervasive learning tools in K-12 education, whether in individual classrooms or in a shared media center. Both Apple and Microsoft have donated millions of dollars worth of ...

IT administrators who need to deploy and manage very small desktop or kiosk-style PCs may want to keep an eye on the development of Linutop. The gadget, about the size of a portable CD player, is an ...

Linux-based X terminals are well known for making computing affordable, for giving a second life to old hardware and for lightening administrative burdens. If you ever have toyed with the idea of ...

As I noted in my post over on Between the Lines ("Why doesn't IBM just buy Novell already?"), I've been testing OpenSUSE's Linux for Education Project and Ubuntu 10.04 server beta 1. I have a couple ...