Glossary

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What is a Machine Account?

What is Squeak?

What is Ilias?

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 133Mhz Pentium I is enough for this purpose. It is best if the network card is bootable (by PXE or Etherboot). Older cards can be obtained for just a few Euro — alternatively you can boot them using a Bootdisk.