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, the only positive to X-terminals is in configuration and
maintenance.
That's my 2 cents anyway.
-Derek
At 02:19 PM 8/7/2006, =?ISO-8859-2?Q?Nagy_L=E1szl=F3?= 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 the costs by using Open Source
software and cheap terminal computers. This is a good solution because
most of the users will read messages and images on the screen and they can
share the same processor and memory easily. I know that I can setup cheap
computers and use its X server as a terminal for another central computer.
This solution still requires new (or used) computers. I would like to
reduce the costs to the minimum. Here are some key questions that I could
not answer:
- Is there a more cost-effective solution? (Something that I did not think of)
- How much RAM will I need? Will FireFox Thunderbird and OpenOffice load
shared objects and reduce the overall memory usage? Or should I reserve
256MB of memory for each client?
- Do I need to use gigabit ethernet? Or is it enough to use a normal 100
Mbps wired network? I heard that there can be bandwidth problems when
using many terminals, but I do not have experience.
- Are there any pitfalls that I need to be aware of?
It would be perfect to provide links to some articles or manuals - I do
not need anyone to write detailed instuctions and do my job. I'm asking
for help because the handbook was not very useful in this case. I only
found this:
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/term.html#TERM-X
It does not help too much, and there is no know-how. I really need to know
what hardware I need to buy.
Thank you
Laszlo
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