On Sat, Oct 11, 2008 at 7:40 AM, Arun SAG <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am doing a toy project (not a project at all).In which i am going to use > LTSP and make some computers to boot from lan (thin clients)..But my head of > the department is not even interested in that, he keep saying that,thin > clients are failure, the server requires more power(like cpu,ram) when many > users are connected to the terminal server...He also saying that we cannot
Yes, you need server with about 4G ram to run about 30 clients, that does not have any hard disk and as little as 128M ram. Multiply all that(well at least 1G ram) into 30 for the real clients. > use thin clients for huge computational purposes..Like running matlab or > oracle in a windows terminal server....By the way the environment i am going Oracle runs on the server, all the clients connects to one instance, i am sure there is no limit to number of connections to oracle/mysql/postgresql database. Did you know you can create build cluster using LTSP within seconds? http://en.opensuse.org/LTSP/Icecream There is no requirement for OS or any application installed on the client at all, saving hundreds of hours of installation and maintenance time, saving also hard cash that goes in buying software and good hardware to run them. Running LTSP environment allows you to use terminals as windows or Linux clients, with added advantage of getting totally free of cost thousands of softwares specially suited for educational purpose (http://opensuse-education.org) > to setup thin client is a university............. > Let me know which University, if it is close I'll drop in some day :) > I would appreciate if some one give statistics,success stories or any other > information so that i can defend my self... > Although not for LTSP clients, you will find here some success stories and reasons for going for Thin Clients. http://www.novell.com/products/thinclient/ I hear there is huge deployments of LTSP in Spain, Germany, Brazil and many other places. Good luck -J ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _____________________________________________________________________ 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
