On Thu, 2003-11-20 at 23:20, LinuxLingam wrote: > the entire discussion is quite stimulating. two clarifications: > > 1) one email suggests 128MB or more RAM for the pentium I or 486 > clients. > 32 - 64 MB RAM is suffcient
> 2) another email suggest 128MB ram for *each* client on the server. > (gulp!). for each machine 32-64 MB RAM > > > other conclusions > 1) all agree that bandwidth of the LAN surprisingly not an issue. > 10-Mbps Half duplex is a pain. From My experience there is sudden burst of 2MB traffic (mainly nfs activity) at time of start. Then it drops down. But still if you have to support anything above a toy installation, you need 100 Mbps Full-Duplex which is not a big deal anyway. > 2) most agree a good video card would suffice. most of these can do > 800x600 16bit or whatever. > That is correct > 3) supreet says keep apps and environments/software ecology consistent. > > > > what i do find amazing, is that no discussion or exploration on the > alternatives and choices available. for instance, all just place their > bets on ltsp. if you check the pxe site, perhaps you may find something > a little more convenient, but i don't know. am sure other alternatives > are worth considering. > I have a copy of pxe. But first rule of thumb is do'nt fix it, if ain't broken. LTSP works fine for me. PXE is a good option if you need multiplatform thin client, as they call universal thin client. It supports RDP, ICA, VNC, X. > :-) > LL > > On side note, in a bigger installation, having 4 MB flash-rom would not be a bad idea. That will decrease the network traffic That was my 2 cent tip Supreet > _______________________________________________ > ilugd mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd -- supreet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _______________________________________________ ilugd mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
