[K12OSN] Server specs....how low can you go?
Petre Scheie
petre at maltzen.net
Mon Jul 10 16:38:19 UTC 2006
IceWM, which is included in K12LTSP, is much less resource-hungry than Gnome or KDE.
Petre
David Whitmer wrote:
> 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
> <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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