I just tested a few PII's at home. None gave a satisfactory experience, but they did boot. My main problem was video-card related. On some cards, X would fail to load. On the other cards, I was given a terrible screen resolution (800x600 or less on my 18" lcd).
One of the PII's had Xubuntu 6.10 installed on the hard drive. It booted fine and produced a decent screen resolution. That same machine with that same video card would fail to load X on LTSP 5 (Debian Lenny). This machine had 192MB RAM. I didn't fully test how much RAM was required to boot LTSP. I know that one machine was only recognizing 16MB and that resulted in a kernel panic. I did boot one machine with 32 MB RAM, but I never managed to get X (even after trying with more RAM). The rest of my tests used 64MB or more, only because that's what was in them to begin with. -Rob On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 11:07:26PM -0800, Nicholas Metsovon wrote: > > It's interesting that you're wanting a lite version of LTSP. I know the > specs say that more modern equipment is needed for LTSP 5, but I have a PII > with 64 MB Ram that runs perfectly fine on LTSP 5. We have a couple of PI's > that I've been thinking of testing with it; but I just don't need them right > now. > > So, if you haven't already tried those PII's, you might want to give them > another try. They might still work ok, despite what the specs say. > > I've heard others saying they have PII's running fine on LTSP 5, too. > > > --- On Wed, 2/25/09, john <lists.j...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > From: john <lists.j...@gmail.com> > > Subject: [Ltsp-discuss] Is it time for LTSP-lite? > > To: ltsp-discuss@lists.sourceforge.net > > Date: Wednesday, February 25, 2009, 1:52 PM > > Hi all, > > > > One of the reasons I originally found LTSP compelling was > > the modest > > specs required of the thin clients. Lately I've been > > feeling like my > > flavor of Linux/LTSP (ubuntu) has entered the same kind of > > systems > > requirement arms-race that I thought I left behind when we > > moved away > > from workstations running XP. > > I used to be able to run PII's with 128 mb ram no > > problem. These days > > 256 Mb on the client seems to be the minimum and 512 > > is preferred. I still have lots of PII's lying around, > > and I suspect > > vast portions of LTSP's potential user base may be > > working with older > > technology as well. If the future of LTSP means you have to > > buy new > > hardware to use it seems like a much less compelling > > solution. > > > > Perhaps my complaints are not really LTSP related (I have > > minimal > > experience with other Distros with LTSP packages), and > > perhaps the > > "fat client" approach is an attempt to get around > > this issue to some > > degree. I am sure someone will set me straight if I > > am conflating two different issues. :-) > > > > So is LTSP 4.2 the answer for older clients, or is there > > something > > else to consider here? > > > > Thanks for letting me ruminate! > > > > John > > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Open Source Business Conference (OSBC), March 24-25, 2009, San Francisco, CA > -OSBC tackles the biggest issue in open source: Open Sourcing the Enterprise > -Strategies to boost innovation and cut costs with open source participation > -Receive a $600 discount off the registration fee with the source code: SFAD > http://p.sf.net/sfu/XcvMzF8H > _____________________________________________________________________ > 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Open Source Business Conference (OSBC), March 24-25, 2009, San Francisco, CA -OSBC tackles the biggest issue in open source: Open Sourcing the Enterprise -Strategies to boost innovation and cut costs with open source participation -Receive a $600 discount off the registration fee with the source code: SFAD http://p.sf.net/sfu/XcvMzF8H _____________________________________________________________________ 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
