On Thu, 3 Jul 2003, Dave Burch wrote: > Greetings. I am a consultant to a small school in need of a IT overhaul. I > have some HP-UX experience, but am new to the Linux world (like most people, > I guess). > > We are trying to extend the life of a bunch of Pentium/Windows 98 > workstations with 32 mB RAM by replacing Microsoft Office with OpenOffice > (or StarOffice, free since my client is a school). Since 64mB RAM is the > nominal requirement, I'm wondering if I can make better use of the meager > desktop hardware by running OpenOffice on the Linux server and displaying it > on the desktops using the Windows version of XFree86. > > 1. Would this configuration work?
I should work. > 2. Would it perform better on 32mB workstations than running OpenOffice > locally? With low memory you will have a always swapping computer. This is very slow. Over a 10Mbit or better 100Mbit network, you can work remote with only little latency than worting on the linux host. > 3. Would I need to use Linux Terminal Services? The userguide should help you with this: http://xfree86.cygwin.com/docs/ug/using-remote-session.html http://xfree86.cygwin.com/docs/ug/using-remote-apps.html bye ago
