Thanks for your input. We were looking at building our own diskless thin clients which come in at around �200 (inc. keyboard, mouse and monitor), along with using the existing PCs in the school. KDE is being used (sorry Phil!) as the school likes the look of it, although we will be turning off all the extras to improve performance (latest versions of KDE seem faster anyway).
I was hoping to use multiple P4 servers with 2Gb RAM, but need some help determining clients per server and an effective load-balancing/failover solution. Someone must have view on this or some experience to share? Regards Chris -----Original Message----- From: Michael Heiming To: Chris Puttick; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Sent: 11/28/02 10:07 PM Subject: Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Large-scale school LTSP project Chris Puttick wrote: >Hi > >I'd be grateful for advice on server specifications/configuration for the >following project: > >To provide Linux thin client services to 300 clients across a high school, >possibly extending to additional 30 clients from a nearby primary (junior) >school. I'm particularly interested in providing very high availability >using multiple relatively low cost servers, with an independent file store >server or NAS solution. I'm assuming the clients will be diskless, with >BootROM NICs for booting and that they would "run" KDE 3.x, Mozilla and >OpenOffice.org, with Mozilla probably running as a local application. > If you really want to run KDE, get tons of RAM, install 'xosview' on the server, run it and output on the client and on another box. You'll soon regocnize, that some defaults, like showing the content of a window while moving, sucks bandwith + CPU out of your server, disable it. Another thing, delete all screensaver, beside "blank screen". Fast disks are important. The Clients doesn't really matter, as long as the graphic card, is able to produce a reasonable picture. Of course setup is much easier, if they are all the same. The only thin client I found so far, able to PXE boot and allow 1280x1024 with a reasonable vert refresh, is a FSC Scovery Xs (or alike). I'd suggest to try getting some for real world testing, should be no problem, if you mention that you want 300! Mention that you want to use them with LTSP. There are some at www.disklessworkstation.com, haven't tested them. Case Jim or someone else from ltsp.org is reading this, what about a contrib page, with expiriences, concerning different types of DCs, available/working with LTSP? Perhaps some small matrix or alike, comparing them. That could be very helpfull.;) LTSP is a great project, everything works really fine, most difficult, finding the right clients, if you can't use a bunch of old PC. Good luck Michael Heiming RHCE ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Get the new Palm Tungsten T handheld. Power & Color in a compact size! http://ads.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/redirect.pl?palm0002en _____________________________________________________________________ Ltsp-discuss mailing list. To un-subscribe, or change prefs, goto: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ltsp-discuss For additional LTSP help, try #ltsp channel on irc.openprojects.net
