Arun SAG 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 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 to setup thin client is > a university............. > > I would appreciate if some one give statistics,success stories or any > other information so that i can defend my self... > You probably don't want to run huge computational programs on a terminal server, because it could slow the server down for everybody. But that doesn't mean that thin clients don't have a place in a university.
I have a desktop machine acting as an LTSP server. It's got a dual-core AMD 5000+ with 2GB RAM, 2 SATA drives in software RAID 1. It cost me about $650. I run 11 thin clients with a Gnome session, 5 thin clients with an rdesktop session to a Windows terminal server, and at least 1 NX session running Gnome. They all run basic software, like Firefox and OpenOffice. This same machine also acts as a MySQL server and a web server for the local network (about 30 users). Note that I recently upgraded to 4GB RAM, since RAM is so cheap now, but it didn't need it and I haven't noticed a performance difference. I'm using K12LTSP 5EL, which is CentOS 5 with LTSP 4.2. -Rob ******************************************************** The information transmitted is intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed and may contain confidential and/or privileged material. If you are not the addressee, any disclosure, reproduction, copying, distribution, or other dissemination or use of this transmission in error please notify the sender immediately and then delete this e-mail. E-mail transmission cannot be guaranteed to be secure or error free as information could be intercepted, corrupted lost, destroyed, arrive late or incomplete, or contain viruses. The sender therefore does not accept liability for any errors or omissions in the contents of this message which arise as a result of e-mail transmission. If verification is required please request a hard copy version. ******************************************************** ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
