On Wed, 25 Feb 2004 11:27, Nick Rout wrote: > Perhaps we need Chris Sawtell's input on this? He set up an LTSP server > for his son's school, on what many would regard as rather low specs for > such an exercise. > > I suspect that if you have a machine that will run XP in any acceptable > fashion, that you can run an ltsp server for a small number of clients > on the same hardware, but I am guessing a bit.
'Server':- HP VectraVL PIII/600 -- Gentoo Linux + LTSP 384Megs memory & 30 Gb disk. 6 Clients: PII/266 -- LTSP boot floppies. We'll set up the NICs to boot as soon as Linux trial stops being a trial. Works ok for that number of clients. No terribly intensive apps. used as yet, but I have had mplayer play an .avi file on the server satisfactorily while a couple of the terminals have been active. Linux is taking a while to catch on, but there are a few good keen fellows using it. It has had every seat used over lunch more than once. The main problem is that the staff are all very shy about using it. With respect to them I don't think it's Linux per se, more that they are not fully computer literate at all, and just don't have the curiosity to try something new. -- Sincerely etc. Christopher Sawtell NB. This PC runs Linux. If you find a virus apparently from me, it has forged the e-mail headers on someone else's machine. Please do not notify me when this occurs. Thanks.
