Hi > On Thu, 2 Jun 2005, Keir Vaughan-Taylor wrote: > > One reason to use an X-terminal or a thin-client using LTSP is that the > > workstation can be cheaper. > > > > The main cost is however in the price of a TFT > > Surely the plug in bits, like screen mouse and keyboard will be the same > whether it's thin clients or normal PC's? > > It's probably not much help to you in Australia, but I've got about 10 of > these so far and am trying to get more. Great tiny boxes and completely > silent due to no moving parts. > > http://www.thintune.com/v/international/products/thintunexs.html > > Even though their tech support says it's not possible, if you take out > their compact flash card (which contains all their software gubbins) it > just boots via PXE. :) > > I'm looking at getting the compact flash usable as a local drive - > probably as local swap space.
Say swap runs every 30 secs (and I think it runs more) and the life of the flash is 10^^6 then your swap disk lasts 1 year (ok maybe 5 times that), and you do want to do it. YMMV, but my flashes wore out in months, not years. 30 * 1000000 / (365 * 24 * 3600) and say the leveling algorithm uses any sector 20% of the time). My clients don't swap much on 256M, but sometimes do eg gallery + slideshow + 100 pics + firefox James ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by Yahoo. Introducing Yahoo! Search Developer Network - Create apps using Yahoo! Search APIs Find out how you can build Yahoo! directly into your own Applications - visit http://developer.yahoo.net/?fr=offad-ysdn-ostg-q22005 _____________________________________________________________________ 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
