Re: [ilugd] diet-pc, ltsp, netstation, pxes

2003-11-21 Thread Arjun Asthana
On Thursday 20 November 2003 23:20, you wrote: the entire discussion is quite stimulating. two clarifications: 1) one email suggests 128MB or more RAM for the pentium I or 486 clients. 2) another email suggest 128MB ram for *each* client on the server. (gulp!). Are you sure? You'll be

Re: [ilugd] diet-pc, ltsp, netstation, pxes

2003-11-20 Thread LinuxLingam
the entire discussion is quite stimulating. two clarifications: 1) one email suggests 128MB or more RAM for the pentium I or 486 clients. 2) another email suggest 128MB ram for *each* client on the server. (gulp!). other conclusions 1) all agree that bandwidth of the LAN surprisingly not an

Re: [ilugd] diet-pc, ltsp, netstation, pxes

2003-11-20 Thread Pankaj Kumar
hi everybody We are using LTSP running a setup of more than 100 thin clients.It works fine. We are using mozilla mail as a mail client.Whenever there is any big attachement (say ~1 MB) system logged out(This happens with only the slower machines like P-75 486). I have tried by increasing VRAM

Re: [ilugd] diet-pc, ltsp, netstation, pxes

2003-11-20 Thread supreet
On Thu, 2003-11-20 at 23:20, LinuxLingam wrote: the entire discussion is quite stimulating. two clarifications: 1) one email suggests 128MB or more RAM for the pentium I or 486 clients. 32 - 64 MB RAM is suffcient 2) another email suggest 128MB ram for *each* client on the server.

Re: [ilugd] diet-pc, ltsp, netstation, pxes

2003-11-20 Thread Sudev Barar
On Wed, 2003-11-19 at 11:11, supreet wrote: I would love to use thin client terminals made out of pc104 boards. It would come out smaller than size of a cdrom drive. Then again it would be chaeper to buy via c3 nano boards or mini-itx then searching for those mythical pentium 1 and 486's.

Re: [ilugd] diet-pc, ltsp, netstation, pxes

2003-11-20 Thread Sudev Barar
On Thu, 2003-11-20 at 23:20, LinuxLingam wrote: the entire discussion is quite stimulating. two clarifications: 1) one email suggests 128MB or more RAM for the pentium I or 486 clients. 2) another email suggest 128MB ram for *each* client on the server. (gulp!). Maybe a wrong sense is

Re: [ilugd] diet-pc, ltsp, netstation, pxes

2003-11-19 Thread LinuxLingam
thanks all for your inputs on the LTSP configurations and minimum specifications. will keep you posted on how it goes. thanks :-) LL ___ ilugd mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd

Re: [ilugd] diet-pc, ltsp, netstation, pxes

2003-11-19 Thread LinuxLingam
On Wed, 2003-11-19 at 11:41, Sudev Barar wrote: IAC for such server a beefy memory (about 128MB per client is good idea) per client??? !!! I have run one 386 machine also but just for curiosity. If you want to see demo...come over. sure. where is this? when will be convenient? :-) LL

Re: [ilugd] diet-pc, ltsp, netstation, pxes

2003-11-19 Thread Narsingh Sahu
--- Sudev Barar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In fact I was also under this impression but in actuality it turned out that using IceWM or KDE made only slight difference in memory used but hardly noticeable slowdown. IAC for such server a beefy memory (about 128MB per client is good idea)

Re: [ilugd] diet-pc, ltsp, netstation, pxes

2003-11-18 Thread supreet
486 runs but can I call that running with full X interface? Would be interested in getting low down of configurations if some one steps forward. Got more than few of those machines running as of date on Netware /DOS. Regarding 486 running linux. I worked on 486 from 1996-1998 with

Re: [ilugd] diet-pc, ltsp, netstation, pxes

2003-11-18 Thread LinuxLingam
On Tue, 2003-11-18 at 20:20, supreet wrote: Regarding 486 running linux. I worked on 486 from 1996-1998 with linux/X-windows. This thing works. Following Config I used to run: Intel 486-dx2 66Mhz 8 Mb Ram Realtek vga card with 256k memory 16 color With little effort this can

Re: [ilugd] diet-pc, ltsp, netstation, pxes

2003-11-18 Thread Sudev Barar
On Tue, 2003-11-18 at 23:53, LinuxLingam wrote: so the question is, if such a 486 pc, or a pentium I, is connected via ltsp to an amd athlonxp with redhat8 or 9, with a graphics card that supports 800x600 24-bit, would it still be able to handle gnome or kde...? and running openoffice? all

Re: [ilugd] diet-pc, ltsp, netstation, pxes

2003-11-18 Thread Narsingh Sahu
--- LinuxLingam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 2003-11-18 at 20:20, supreet wrote: Regarding 486 running linux. I worked on 486 from 1996-1998 with linux/X-windows. This thing works. Following Config I used to run: Intel 486-dx2 66Mhz 8 Mb Ram Realtek vga card with

Re: [ilugd] diet-pc, ltsp, netstation, pxes

2003-11-18 Thread Sudev Barar
On Wed, 2003-11-19 at 10:48, Narsingh Sahu wrote: When you are thinking of thin client or LTSP kind of network solution, I would not go for Gnome/KDE at the client end. Both are heavy and you don't want to run all the kind of software which come with these two desktop environment, do you? Yes

Re: [ilugd] diet-pc, ltsp, netstation, pxes

2003-11-17 Thread LinuxLingam
On Mon, 2003-11-17 at 09:11, Sudev Barar wrote: On Sun, 2003-11-16 at 01:36, LinuxLingam wrote: anyone here on the mailing list with thin-clients [snip] Did I mention all are old Pii motherboards from nehru place??? old! hello, hello, i use an 'old' pII for my work as well, loaded with

Re: [ilugd] diet-pc, ltsp, netstation, pxes

2003-11-17 Thread Sudev Barar
On Mon, 2003-11-17 at 16:12, LinuxLingam wrote: On Mon, 2003-11-17 at 09:11, Sudev Barar wrote: On Sun, 2003-11-16 at 01:36, LinuxLingam wrote: anyone here on the mailing list with thin-clients [snip] Did I mention all are old Pii motherboards from nehru place??? old! hello,

Re: [ilugd] diet-pc, ltsp, netstation, pxes

2003-11-16 Thread Sudev Barar
On Sun, 2003-11-16 at 01:36, LinuxLingam wrote: dear all, this is exciting. which thin-client implementation do you recommend, if you have some experience with any of these: 1) ltsp 2) diet-pc 3) netstation 4) pxes 5) [others] on a redhat8 acting as the main server. LTSp been

[ilugd] diet-pc, ltsp, netstation, pxes

2003-11-15 Thread LinuxLingam
dear all, this is exciting. which thin-client implementation do you recommend, if you have some experience with any of these: 1) ltsp 2) diet-pc 3) netstation 4) pxes 5) [others] on a redhat8 acting as the main server. i recall amitabh and i saw the deployment of ltsp on mandrake(?) at pune,