Re: From Costa Rica...some advices!!

Please use the SF's mailing list [email protected], a lot of people
is willing to help.
Support is for customers only.

To get started, just get a PXES PB iso image from SourceForge and you're
ready to boot any PC with CD-ROM.
Then you will need a server, if you don't have a Linux background I
recommend a W2K3 server with Terminal Services (or an XP box where you can
test only 1 remote connection).

Best regards.
> HI!
>
> I am the owner of a cybercafe in Costa Rica. Right now we have 35
> computers running all flavors of Windows>NT, 95, 98 and 2 XP (very
> expensive).

> We have a ADSL connection 512/4000 and one machine running Winproxy as a
> proxy/firewall on a NT workstation.
>
> Everything is fine except that the machines are quit old now! All of
> them have 64RAM and a 200/233 MMX. I begon to update the CPU little by
> little (got a good deal on Ebay) with 700 ATHLONS and 128RAM.
>
> I have 2 choices now> either I can sell these machines for peanuts
> or...use them as thin client machines with your software. By the way, a
> couple of days ago, 3 hard disk fried on the same day! I am not going to
> buy 40/60 GIG hard disk for these old machines or hunt Ebay to buy
> smaller HD. But, I  was thinking, these would be perfect for thin
> client.
>
> So here I am, searching the net for solutions. Found your site and like
> it because it's more graphical than many others!  I loved these screen
> shots!

> Now, the big question!
>
> I would like to use all these old machines to create a paralleled thin
> client/server! For sure I can't touch the Windows setting I have now,
> one glitch and I out of bussiness. But doing it a a project apart of the
> actual setting, would be perfect. I could start with 1 server and 1
> client as a first step.
>
> Customers here in Costa Rica needs mainly to:
> surf the web
> use msn messenger/Yahoo (Gain I supposed for Linux)
> open and read word doc, Power Point and excell
> a graphical desktop..very important
> I know I could add office.org ut I think doing this will require quit a
> beefed up server.
>
> Having no expererience at all with Linux, what would you recommend me as
> the very very first step??
>
> Thanks for any advices you would give
>
>
> Roger Pilon, Pres.
> CyberCafe Las Arcadas
> San Jose, Costa Rica
>
> PS....For sure, I would be more than willing to make a donation to the
> project!


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