On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 03:53:19PM -0600, Scott Balneaves wrote: > On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 12:52:39PM -0800, john wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > One of the reasons I originally found LTSP compelling was the modest > > specs required of the thin clients. Lately I've been feeling like my > > flavor of Linux/LTSP (ubuntu) has entered the same kind of systems > > requirement arms-race that I thought I left behind when we moved away > > from workstations running XP. > > I used to be able to run PII's with 128 mb ram no problem. These days > > 256 Mb on the client seems to be the minimum and 512 > > is preferred. I still have lots of PII's lying around, and I suspect > > vast portions of LTSP's potential user base may be working with older > > technology as well. If the future of LTSP means you have to buy new > > hardware to use it seems like a much less compelling solution. > > > > Perhaps my complaints are not really LTSP related (I have minimal > > experience with other Distros with LTSP packages), and perhaps the > > "fat client" approach is an attempt to get around this issue to some > > degree. I am sure someone will set me straight if I > > am conflating two different issues. :-) > > > > So is LTSP 4.2 the answer for older clients, or is there something > > else to consider here? > > Well, there's several things at play here. > > Although the LTSP written portions of LTSP continue to remain nice and small > (i.e. ltspfs, ldm, jetpipe, etc)... > > 1) Base system requirements have gone up. Most distros are using their > "default" kernel for a thin client. The default kernel has a LOT of support > built in for things that aren't (usually) found on a thin client (RAID cards, > ISDN adapters, etc). This adds to bloat.
Would it make any sense to tap the resources of some of the lightweight distros out there? Puppy, Damn Small Linux, and Vector Linux come to mind. What if the thin clients ran a kernel and Xorg from one of those distros? Would it help, (and would it even be possible)? -Rob ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Open Source Business Conference (OSBC), March 24-25, 2009, San Francisco, CA -OSBC tackles the biggest issue in open source: Open Sourcing the Enterprise -Strategies to boost innovation and cut costs with open source participation -Receive a $600 discount off the registration fee with the source code: SFAD http://p.sf.net/sfu/XcvMzF8H _____________________________________________________________________ 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
