terminal services on FC6

[David Timms]

azeem ahmad wrote:
> hi list
> i have a FC6 box which has 1 GB RAM and two 1 GHz XEON Processors. i 
> want to give a remote desktop to about 40 clients simaltaneously.
> but notice that its not like vnc which shares a single desktop, rather i 
> want to give every user which logs in a new personal desktop which is 
> not shared with other users. (may be just like windows terminal services)
> 
> is there any such software which can be used for this purpose?
> 
> can the above mentioned HArdware support about 40 simal;taneous user 
> connections???
Checkout the LTSP linux terminal server project. http://www.ltsp.org/
or for the educational slant: http://www.k12ltsp.org/

People have been doing what you want on much older hardware for many 
years. Even nicer is the network pxeboot/tftp loading and running on a 
machine without having to perform an install on the remote machine.

I think it would depend a bit on the types of applications the users 
will be using {eg scientific calculations might mean only a few people 
could be useful at once, whereas text or spreadsheet activity might work 
fine for that number of users}. From memory, good network connectivity 
is essential {dual gigabit might be nice}.

DaveT.