On Thu, Sep 29, 2005 at 01:31:24AM -0700, Nel Rebuldela wrote: > As I have said before, it's for experimental purposes only since I am > new to the program and I want to explore some possibilities. Besides, > I also have some old boxes here (233MHz) that I want to use and since > this was originally a Windows-based cafe, I never had the chance to > use them due to large memory requirements of Windows-based programs.
Those older boxes will be perfect candidates for a thin-client setup. You don't need to have a dedicated server to start playing with ThinTUX. A DHCP + TFTP server won't be too resource intensive, and you can use ThinTUX as long as you have one DHCP + TFTP server on your network. You may want to experiment with setting up all your fat workstations to be XDMCP servers -- you do this by configuring the desktop manager [XDM, KDM, GDM, et al] to respond to XDMCP requests. You can then configure each old computer to have one other workstation to serve as its server. This way, you don't centralize the processing and network loads, and yet you can significantly increase the number of seats you can accomodate. --> Jijo -- Federico Sevilla III : jijo.free.net.ph : When we speak of free software GNU/Linux Specialist : GnuPG 0x93B746BE : we refer to freedom, not price. _________________________________________________ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [email protected] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Read the Guidelines: http://linux.org.ph/lists Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph
