[debian-edu-commits] [Debian Wiki] Update of "DebianEdu/FAQ/glossary" by pulchras

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   Ilias is an E-Learning Environment lead and developed in the University of Cologne [[http://www.ilias.uni-koeln.de/]]. Along with the University of Cologne there are other educational institutions participating in the development of individual components. 
  The online teaching platform ILIAS (a German accronym meaning Integrated Teaching, Information and Collaboration System) is fully open source software released under the GNU General Public License (GPL). Therefore, educational institutions and other interested groups can use the system free of charge and make enhancements without restrictions.
  
- === What is a ''Thin Client?'' ===
-  A thin client is a computer terminal with a monitor, mouse and keyboard. All of the information displayed on screen and all applications which run come from a Terminal Server. Therefore the thin client requires neither a hard disk, nor a particularly powerful processor. As such the thin clients make very economic use of old hardware. There are so few points of failure with thin clients that their installation is often as simple as turning on a light bulb.
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- A 133Mhz Pentium I is enough for this purpose. It is best if the network card is bootable (by [[http://www.ltsp.org/documentation/pxe.howto.html|PXE]] or [[http://www.etherboot.org|Etherboot]]). Older cards can be obtained for just a few Euro — alternatively you can boot them using a Bootdisk.
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