Peter Nelissen wrote:
Hi,
New to Linux systems and ltsp, I managed to install a small test
terminal-server environment for my daughters school.
I installed Mandrake 9.2 on a PII 300Mhz with 128Mb RAM.
4 Clients are PI 166Mhz with appr. 90Mb RAM / users will be using
webbrowsing and openoffice apps.
Now that I know it's possible to do the install, I 'd like to do a fresh
install for real test use in the school.
Before starting I 'd like to benefit from others experience.
- what could be the (dis)advantages of using using K12OSN?
- a lot of attention is often paid to the thin clients, but what are minimal
requirements for a server for a setting with 6 workstations without hd?
(I don't want users to be disappointed because of me using inapropriate
material. My actual PII doesn't give me a flashy open office writer (startup
appr. 60 sec; once it's running, and after hesitating a little bit in the
beginning it works ok on three terminals, but for a first experience it's
not fast and smooth enough.)
And finally: what did other users wrong when they were installing ltsp for
the first time? I 'd like some strategic advises rather than overview of
'technical' errors.
thanks, peter
128MB of memory is barely enough to run a desktop with OpenOffice.org. I
couldn't imagine trying to run a LTSP server with it. LTSP requires a
lot of memory to work well. We're testing it on a Dual Xeon 2.8ghz
machine with 2GB's of memory. We expect to put about 30 clients on this
provided we run IceWM instead of Gnome or KDE. I'd recommend a faster
machine with as much memory as possible. Otherwise, the users WILL be
disappointed. 1GB is my recommended minimum memory requirements.
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Jeff Self
Dept. of Information Technology
City of Newport News
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