Am Dienstag, 16. M�rz 2004 15:43 schrieb Norberto Altalef: > Hi. > We are using Linux in several servers but now we are evaluating install > LTSP4 to replace several PC that are currently running Win9x. > The users in this PC only needs a telnet session to a Unix server, an > Internet browser and a simple document editor. > Some of this PC are very old (486 DX4 with 16 MB RAM) > > The complete network has +200 workstations but in this first step we are > planning to replace about 40. > The network is 10 years old in some zones. Mainly 10 mbit and with several > 10base2 cables. Each floor of the building is connected to a 10baseT switch > (using a media converter) but in some zones we +20 PC connected to the same > coaxil cable. > > I would like to know which performance I could obtain using this network?
Performance will of course not be the best on those small boxes - but way better than any winblows software before, I'd expect. We started an LTSP lab with 18 or so 486-66, 24MB RAM over one 10base coaxial segment which was fine once all terminals ran. Later we splitted into two segments because sometimes there was too much traffic generated from those machines running windows and accessing the Novell file server... this also increased Linux terminal reaction time while network was heavily loaded. If you go for this, use icewm or something similar small for your window manager. Editors are there like sand on the beach - even vi when run inside a console window :-) For internet browsing: The mozilla version we installed was a bit tricky to manage when several users logged in with the same name etc., but this is doable. Should be faster then e.g. konqueror as that needs all KDE libs and so on. Regards Anselm ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id70&alloc_id638&op=click _____________________________________________________________________ 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
