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On 29/08/2005 at 09:51 Chad wrote:
I am planning on using Fedora Core 3 (or 4, not sure yet) to make the
Thin Network.
There seems to be issues with Fedora Core 4, maybe it's better to wait for it to stabilize in a while.
If I were you though, I'll investigate Debian as well. The new stable version (Sarge) is pretty good and (um) stable.
Unlike FC, which release cycle is pretty short (6 months?), you should be able to run Debian for a long time without worrying about upgrading. And when a new version finally comes out, the upgrade process should be painless. (note: if you avoid backports)
Using there system specs, how many max Thin Clients could
be on one server?
If you offload Firefox, Thunderbird, & Open Office; you'll be able to host quite a lot of clients on this server.
I have a server with 3 GB of RAM, and it can serve up to 20 clients (swapping a bit). From my observation, those 3 apps above are the biggest resource users. So if it's offloaded to the clients, then you may be able to serve up to 60 clients (perhaps even more).
Thin Server>
Duel Xeon 3GHz 64bit
4 Gigs DDR2 memory
6-500GB SATAII in RAID50 <-home directories
I've read postings about problems with SATA & Fedora, probably on certain hardware setup.
You might wish to research about this further.
Gigabit Network
Thin Client>
P4 2.66GHz 64bit
512MB DDR2
Gigabit Network
With thin-client infrastructure, these clients will pretty much last forever :-)
No need to upgrade every 3 years (hurray)
HTH.
Regards,
Harry
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