On Monday 07 August 2006 21:19, Nagy László wrote:
I need to setup an environment where some users (10 to 20 employees)
will use terminals to run programs. They need to run a few popular
programs: thunderbird, firefox, adobe acrobat, openoffice and gaim.
Jamie Zawinski has done such a thing
cpghost [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I'm using EPIA 5000 mini-ATX boards with 512 MB RAM, diskless booting
from an NFS server. They load X.org and everything else on demand.
Compared to local HDDs, there's a small performance hit when loading
programs [and those boards are not the fastest,
the EPIA's look nice but cost too much.
For comparable performance you can retrofit an old netier XL2000 on ebay
with a laptop hard drive.
They are small, fanless and come with an AMD 400-450 Mhz proc.
They usually go for about 10$ on ebay. You need to get an internal laptop
IDE cable and a
Chris Shenton wrote:
cpghost [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I'm using EPIA 5000 mini-ATX boards with 512 MB RAM, diskless booting
from an NFS server. They load X.org and everything else on demand.
Compared to local HDDs, there's a small performance hit when loading
programs [and those boards are
Ansar Mohammed [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
the EPIA's look nice but cost too much.
For comparable performance you can retrofit an old netier XL2000 on ebay
with a laptop hard drive.
They are small, fanless and come with an AMD 400-450 Mhz proc.
They usually go for about 10$ on ebay. You need
Nagy László wrote:
Hello,
I need to setup an environment where some users (10 to 20 employees)
will use terminals to run programs. They need to run a few popular
programs: thunderbird, firefox, adobe acrobat, openoffice and gaim. This
site will be a customer service. We decided to reduce
Hello,
I need to setup an environment where some users (10 to 20 employees)
will use terminals to run programs. They need to run a few popular
programs: thunderbird, firefox, adobe acrobat, openoffice and gaim. This
site will be a customer service. We decided to reduce the costs by using
In these days of commodity PC pricing running X-terminals isn't really cost
effective. You'd be better off buying 10 - 20 identical PC's loading and
configuring one, and then clone the drive for the rest.
Using X-terminals will likely cost more per unit, and produce more load on
the server,
On Mon, Aug 07, 2006 at 09:19:30PM +0200, Nagy L?szl? wrote:
I need to setup an environment where some users (10 to 20 employees)
will use terminals to run programs. They need to run a few popular
programs: thunderbird, firefox, adobe acrobat, openoffice and gaim. This
I'm using EPIA 5000
On Tue, Aug 08, 2006 at 01:12:02AM +0200, cpghost wrote:
On Mon, Aug 07, 2006 at 09:19:30PM +0200, Nagy L?szl? wrote:
- Are there any pitfalls that I need to be aware of?
Locking over NFS is a bit buggy. I had some trouble running thunderbird
and firefox, as they seem to hang on some
On Mon, Aug 07, 2006 at 02:27:30PM -0500, Derek Ragona wrote:
the only positive to X-terminals is in configuration and maintenance.
...and being totally silent! In an office not necessarily that
important, but in some other environments, it's very convenient!
-Derek
-cpghost.
--
- Is there a more cost-effective solution? (Something that I did not
think of)
We used to build (well my colleague did that) X terminals based on a
thin configuration of freeBSD (must have been version 2 at that time)
that we ran on diskless computers booting from floppy. At that time we
ran
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