--- Berend De Schouwer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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
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