On Sat, 2004-03-20 at 06:37, Jason Greenwood wrote: > Want to run a 2 person office on Linux (with a view to adding 2-4 staff > later). Would like to run attractive, modern thin clients on the > desktop. Thin client ideas? They don't have to be ultra cheap (since we > could buy used lower spec'd desktops to do the job) but we are always > conscious of budget of course. We know what sort of sever specs we're > after but we also want to be as 'wireless' as possible, from Internet > access to printing to anything else we can make wireless! I HATE wiring. > =) It's so old school anyway... any wireless stories/deployments greatly > appreciated here.
Why don't you set up a beowulf or mosix cluster? Not sure how wireless would handle that tho`. > Flat panels of course are almost de'rigeur these days aren't they? Any > pitfalls/recommendations there? thinking 17in cuz it seems there is > little price benefit going smaller than that. LCD would be nice but > ouch, pricey. Are there slimline CRT's I don't know about or ALL those > super slim small form factor monitors LCD's? They are all LCD. CRT's require depth for the gun to be able to cover the entire phosphor screen. > My business partner is sold on the idea of an exclusively Linux/OSS > office but as he comes from a doze background I want to make this as > painless as possible for him. Any gotcha's I should plan for? You should make sure always has a way of finding out what is happening with the system. This is a weakness of this sort of setup. Is my job still printing, is my fax spooled, when did it last try to go out, where is my mail, what's happening.... They are used to having complete control and lots of feedback. They don't trust the system to actually *DO* what they've asked it to do. > The gear needs to look nice as there will be business associates > coming to the office and they WILL be basing part of their opinion of us > on the gear we run. I set up a `puter yesterday with a new genuis mouse & keyboard, 17" LCD black case. Looked great. Pitty about the OS. Having to hack the registry to make it work with samba irks me. Good luck. Rex
