[K12OSN] Server specs....how low can you go?
Angus Carr
acarr at saskforestcentre.ca
Mon Jul 10 17:29:39 UTC 2006
I've found that if the console is fast enough, the client is fast
enough. What I do with my home system (admittedly a little faster, but
whatever) is load the likely files into RAM by creating a VNCserver
which preloads openoffice, firefox, thunderbird and kate into a gnome
session (my users' default wm) so that the programs are already running.
The RAM footprint is worth the decreased startup. This is all done by a
dummy user on a firewalled vnc session, so nobody ever sees it.
It's cheesy, but is works.
Angus.
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 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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