If you are on a tight budget, you can get by with ancient hardware. In the Informatics library at UMSA in La Paz, Bolivia we are running LTSP 4.2 in Debian 4.0 on a Pentium D Server with 2GB RAM. The 10 thin clients are old Pentium Is (between 166Mhz and 233Mhz) with 16MB RAM which were built in 1994. We can use GNOME, OpenOffice, Mozilla Firefox, GIMP, Anjuta, etc. as long as we have network swap enabled and limited screen resolution to 800x600. When I upgraded half of the thin clients to 24MB of RAM, I noticed that they functioned significantly better and were able to display 1024x768 screen resolutions without freezing. Since the thin clients didn't have USB ports, we installed USB PCI cards which allow the students to use USB mice and flash memory sticks.
This setup is sufficient for the needs of users in a university library as long as they don't need multimedia applications. U-tube video and small downloaded video clips run OK, but the limited network bandwidth and the ancient video cards in the thin clients can't handle video clips with resolutions larger than 640x480. --Amos Batto __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
