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

[Petre Scheie]

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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