[K12OSN] Server specs....how low can you go?

[David Whitmer]

Jason,
 
At home, I've got an 800 MHz PC with only 384 MB RAM running K12LTSP 4.4.1.  We primarily use it as a Samba file server for our home network.  Occassionally I run a lower spec PC off of it as a thin client.  It works okay, though the graphical environment (whether Gnome or KDE) and Firefox are a little slow to load, and Firefox especially is a little sluggish even after it's loaded.  Though I'm sure more memory would fix that problem.  I don't think I've tried running more than one thin client at a time off of it, though I could try that this evening just to see what would happen.
 
David Whitmer


----- Original Message ----
From: Jason Neiffer <neiffer at gmail.com>
To: K12OSN at redhat.com
Sent: Monday, July 10, 2006 11:22:47 AM
Subject: [K12OSN] Server specs....how low can you go?

I am working with a small business who is looking for 2-3 workstations to surf the Internet on a broadband connection they have going into their shop.  They were going to go purchase a coulpe of low-end Dells but I suggested they look into LTSP. 

I am fairly sure I can come up with cheap thin clients but I want to get as inexpensive of a server as possible.  How low can I go on the specs?  I was looking at http://k12ltsp.org/install.html and it suggested that I could get away with something as low as a PIII/1gig or faster.  Would that be a workable solution in this environment?  How about if I wanted to use K12LTSP 5 when it was released?

Does anybody have experience with using it with just a few computers that could share? 

Thanks,
Jason


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