| German schools pilot remote Debian/KDE desktops |
Feb. 10, 2009
 Students and teachers in select German schools can access personalized virtual desktops from home or school, using Kreisbildstelle Stade's currently piloting "Desque" system. The desktops run in a Hamburg datacenter, on quad-core Xeon servers, and are delivered over "standard" broadband using open source NX compression.
The "Desque" set-up is being demonstrating at the Didacta 2009 educational show in Hannover. It is also reportedly being piloted by a number of German schools. Each school gets its own server, which is divided into multiple virtual machines using Xen. The servers are loaded with Firefox, OpenOffice, and so on, along with "up to 70" educational applications. The desktops can be accessed from energy saving thin clients, or from older PCs, and only a "standard" broadband connection is needed, the group says, thanks to the open source NX X Window compression technology.
More details about the Desque technology and pilot program can be found on our sister site, LinuxDevices.com, here.
-- Henry Kingman
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