Mathias, I have a VIA Epia mini-itx based system (533MHz Eden fanless CPU) with 128MB memory.
It boots by PXE perfectly. It has a usb printer, scanner and pen tablet attached. The on-board sound and video work. I have had issues with higher resolutions running higher colour depths because the video chipset clock can't support them (but that would depend on the model of board you choose). I am running the older chipset which takes SDRAM. I have found that the limiting factor for a terminal is more memory than CPU. For example, printing a complex graphics file from OpenOffice to a printer connected to the terminal crashed the terminal until I added NFS swap. If you don't have a printer attached, 128MB RAM is plenty. As for the DVD, remember that many mini-itx cases only support slimline optical drives (ie laptop drives) so be prepared to spend more for less. The VIA based systems are perfectly quiet because they are fanless. So quiet, in fact, that the only sound I hear is the slight buzzing of the monitor (time for an LCD panel, I think). John On Sat, 2005-03-12 at 11:33, mathias wrote: > Hello. My LTSP server is up and running so the next step is buying a > thin client computer. > Im using it as a home computer running IRC, GAIM, OpenOffice and > Thunderbird/FireFox. > I want a silent computer with DVD > > Will a 533mhz CPU work or do you advise somthing faster? > Is there any problem with booting over network with any mini-itx? > > /Thanks for an excellent mailing list. Very useful.. > Mathias Smedberg ------------------------------------------------------- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest & candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=6595&alloc_id=14396&op=click _____________________________________________________________________ Ltsp-discuss mailing list. To un-subscribe, or change prefs, goto: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ltsp-discuss For additional LTSP help, try #ltsp channel on irc.freenode.net
