On Mon, 02 Aug 2004 14:37, Nick Rout wrote: > On Mon, 02 Aug 2004 14:20:34 +1200 > > Christopher Sawtell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Mon, 02 Aug 2004 11:36, Derek Smithies wrote: > > > Comment ? > > > > While installing an LTSP net is not as easy as falling off a log and > > holding out your paw for a couple of grand, it's nothing like as > > difficult as I think you are inferring. > > it dies take time, a fair chunk of money (if it is to be worthy of > showing off) and ongoing time for maintenance. Forget the couple of > grand. Oh sure, that's just the payment for falling off the log. The cheapest current cost of suitable terminal machines ( P2s ) at the 1 off price is << $100. They will need CRT's in addition, allow $100 or so.
> I see the ministry's standard for networking includes a gigabyte > connection from the server to the backbone. Whether or not that is necessary depends on how many clients you have on the network. and how fat you make the clients. LTSP allows for the use of the local disk. Local mounts of /usr would be a good idea. > The server recommendations for a LTSP network (again we would want it to > be worthy of showing off) are pretty steep. It would be interesting to do a cost benefit analysis to discover the balance point wrt to server, disk, and network speeds and number of clients. > Getting a load of maintenance free terminals is a mission, with all due respect, that's the easy bit. The innate wastefulness of big business and Govt. Depts. means that there is a continuous supply of ~3 y.o. machinery. > the cheapest terminals will be second hand boxes of dubious history. The terminal machines will have just sat on departmental desks for 3 years just doing their bit running some version or other of NT. I don't see that as 'dubious'. > Its true we'd dump > their hard drives, but that doesn't mean they are never going to pack up. Of course they are going to pack up. Just get another one. -- Sincerely etc., Christopher Sawtell
