Yes. I just helped set up 6 more LTSP boxen at the Pleasant Hill Junior High school today, they all were Pentium-100's with 32 megs of ram, and old 2 meg video cards... granted, they're acting as thin clients given the LTSP architecture (see http://ltsp.org/ or http://k12ltsp.org/ for more info!), but they worked GREAT. I was really impressed with how easy it was -- they already had the server set up for other clients, and all we had to do was add desired hostnamen and their MAC addressen to the dhcp.conf file, and restart dhcpd. Slick. The boot-time is very quick, also. You may find that you get far better performance if you use your older box as a thin client, even if not under the LTSP model. Beaker, you're trying to get involved in this too, ya? Today was very easy and successful (thankfully I reminded Ken to restart dhcp before we ripped everything apart!). The school staff was very thankful, and they really need more community help if possible -- I tuned them into schoolforge.net, where they can browse software that is geared to their needs... they'll most likely want to be installing some new stuff soon... they also need some clean-up and lock-down on their LTSP server, as there's lotsa crap that shouldn't be installed, or at least should not be available to the common user there. They upgraded their server to 512MB ram recently, and even the old mozilla 1.0.1 was quite speedy; the server is a 450 MHz dualie. Ciao, folks, and rock on!!
Ben Barrett PS - Anyone else want to volunteer to help with local LTSP endeavors? Rally! On Thu, 2003-02-13 at 13:00, Beaker (aka Jeff W) wrote: > > If you have a mixed hardware environment (such as mac, pc, sun, ...) and all > > the computers must run the same OS, then linux is probably your only answer. > > And if you want the OS to be consistent across that mixed hardware, then > Debian and NetBSD are likely the only choice. > > Ben - FWIW, I run the WMX window manager on NetBSD-1.6 with Dillo, XV, > Cool-Edit, and a few other things on a Sparc IPX (50Mhz; 64M RAM) and as > long as I don't try to resize/move windows too fast, it works pretty > well. The worst thing is the CG6 framebuffer (8 bit color), which as you > can imagine, doesn't offer the best resolution. > > -Beaker > > _______________________________________________ > Eug-LUG mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://mailman.efn.org/cgi-bin/listinfo/eug-lug -- -- Ben Barrett Software & Systems Engineer counterclaim Sys Admin, Installation, Consulting Phone: 541.484.9235 Fax: 541.484.9193 Cell: 541.543.1422 _______________________________________________ Eug-LUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.efn.org/cgi-bin/listinfo/eug-lug
