On Thu, July 20, 2006 1:21 pm, Krishna Murphy wrote: > 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.
I dissagree. If that's the hardware he has, and the users are currently used to running windows-95 or 98, then they will be VERY happy using them as thin clients with LTSP. Maybe they can only do 800x600 resolution. Maybe they have to run Icewm or Xfce, instead of the fancy desktop environments. Maybe they have to turn on Swap over NBD. Still, it's way better than having nothing at all. There's no point in throwing them away. Jim McQuillan [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -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 > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
