Hi, On Sat, 30 Sep 2006, maning sambale wrote:
> > I guess you don't have a budget for a thin client server so you could use > > the low-end pcs as thin clients? That would be the ideal solution. > > Well, the only budget I have are office electricity, proxy net > connection (for the updates), 2-3 hours of my time after office hours, > and my newbie experience with linux. Bear in mind that a thin client server need not necessarily be an extremely powerful machine. I don't have figures, but a single modern desktop machine should support quite a few thin clients without great trouble. The main constriction on number of users is RAM. So, if you can get a gig or two of RAM with a late P3 or a P4 you can probably run 5-10 thin clients on it -- this would make good use of your oldest hardware. If you need to shave a little more performance, using the XFCE desktop instead of GNOME will apparently save you quite a bit of RAM. The only way to tell numbers for sure is to try it out. > Thank you for all the tips. You're welcome. > Sorry for the late reply, typhoon struck the Philippines [1] and most > of Luzon had no electricity for more than two days. Ouch. Hope things get back to normal soon. Gavin -- edubuntu-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/edubuntu-users
