Sudev- I think that's the consensus; besides, with terminal hardware selling for ~$5 on eBay, it's not worth messing with systems that old.
-Krishna On Thu, 20 Jul 2006, Sudev Barar wrote: > On Wed, July 19, 2006 5:21 am, Andrea Reale wrote: > > Hi all, > > For my first message on this mailing list, i will ask a question about > > creating a ltsp system on ten 486s machines and a P4 1,5 Ghz as > > server. I need this system for running applications such as openoffice > > or firefox (it is for a school). Do you think is it possible to create > > such a system with good performances? > > Do you think it would be better (and possible) to run Xorg both on the > > clients and server, or run Xorg only on the server? My $0.02 worth: Three times I have tested 486 for possible clients but gave up for use a X/GUI terminal. For shell terminal it is lovely and works but graphic interface slows down horribly. Even getting hands on RAM for such a system is going to be expensive and most MoBo's do not have enough slots as the RAM sizes are also 2/4mb per stick. Agan MoBo's with ISA network cards are a no no. As a proof of concept they can be shown to work but for OO uisng java et. al. I am sceptical. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys -- and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _____________________________________________________________________ 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