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 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, though 100% silent ;-)], but users here are happy enough with them. > - 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. For a diskless setup, 100 MB switched on the client side is enough; but you'd definitely prefer gigabit ethernet on the NFS server. > - 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 thr_*() call, and gconfd can be a bitch too over NFS, if the permissions on an NFS-mounted /tmp are not set correctly (/tmp as md ramdisk is fine though). No other known pitfalls here so far. > 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 Regards, -cpghost. -- Cordula's Web. http://www.cordula.ws/ _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
