On Fri, Nov 29, 2002 at 10:41:36AM -0000, Chris Puttick wrote: > Thanks for your input. We were looking at building our own diskless thin > clients which come in at around £200 (inc. keyboard, mouse and monitor), > along with using the existing PCs in the school. KDE is being used (sorry > Phil!) as the school likes the look of it, although we will be turning off > all the extras to improve performance (latest versions of KDE seem faster > anyway). > > I was hoping to use multiple P4 servers with 2Gb RAM, but need some help > determining clients per server and an effective load-balancing/failover > solution. Someone must have view on this or some experience to share?
For load-balancing and failover we have had some discussion on the list, but the most interesting part has been developed off-list, by Tom Lisjac, see his HOWTO at: http://theseus.sourceforge.net/projects/ets/ets-howto.html -- Hans Ekbrand
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