On Friday 24 January 2003 16:56, Scott Sherrill wrote: > It seems to me that further use could be squeezed out of 386's and > early 486's but perhaps not as a graphical workstation.
They can certainly be used as diskless X clients, assuming enough RAM to keep X happy. All the apps run on the server. > Ideas floating around my head: > > * wireless base stations - I would think you'd have better (central) > management tools with Linux than you would with Belkin/D-Link > stations....and you could replace components as they fail. Not as > small and pretty as the base stations, but price is about the same > (cheaper with a good e*bay shopper) for a wireless isa as a belkin > station. > > * edge snort boxes? > > * public (at least inside the institution) palm sync stations? > > * x10 stuff (although what I have no idea) > > * mini web servers? Doesn't have to be so mini. If its mostly static, it'll keep up with 10 Mbps network connections. Same for "static file servers" (samba or ftp, anyone?). > Anybody doing exciting things with x86 ISA boxes that don't involve > workstations? Is there value in any of the above ideas? Anything where the service doesn't need a huge a amount of horsepower or network bandwidth. Log servers (if you generate 100 Mbps logs, you have a problem). Print servers. DHCP or DNS servers. Modem servers. Authentication servers. CVS. Mostly these boxes only get replaced when the hardware croaks -- not for performance reasons. Gateways or firewalls if the network on a side is slow. Not everyone has 10baseT lines. Plenty people still use 64Kbps. I also still have one to test Xenix stuff -- but don't tell anyone :P. -- Berend De Schouwer ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.NET email is sponsored by: SourceForge Enterprise Edition + IBM + LinuxWorld = Something 2 See! http://www.vasoftware.com _____________________________________________________________________ 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.freenode.net
