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Stew Benedict wrote:
> On Mon, 10 Mar 2003, Buchan Milne wrote:
>
> Thin-client support was added when it was first brought up as an issue.
>

I am aware of that, but AFAIK (ie I haven't tested this) thin-clients
still start up devfs locally, which runs some perl script a few thousand
times (loading up perl each time), which takes a few minutes on a
486/16MB or 586/16MB system, whereas with LTSP, devfs is not used
(AFAIK), and a 586/16MB system boots to a kdm login prompt in about 45
seconds.

You can use terminal-server with thin-clients, but really thin (slow)
ones will do better on LTSP.

I must get around to playing with this again soon, specially trying
booting without devfs.

Buchan

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