On 7/14/05, Jim McQuillan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dale, > > Certainly the P4 2.8ghz box will work as a thin client, but it is indeed > at the top end of thin clients. I've got a whole bunch of 166Mhz P1's, > and those are working just fine. > > Gigabit network is nice, but 100Mbit is sufficient for almost anybody. > Lots of thin client networks out there are still running 10Mbit and > doing just fine. > > As for preparing for the possibility of wanting to turn the client into > a regular PC later, I've known lots of people who have thought that same > way, spent money so they could possibly do it, and now 5 years later, > they're still using them as thin clients. Bottom line: There's better > places to spend the money, like more RAM in the server.
Oh absolutely second that. Why waste a machine that could itself be a server with a wee bit more memory. ;-) -- Sudev Barar Learning Linux ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Discover Easy Linux Migration Strategies from IBM. Find simple to follow Roadmaps, straightforward articles, informative Webcasts and more! Get everything you need to get up to speed, fast. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_idt77&alloc_id492&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
