Hi!
Thank you all for your feedback on my question about noiseless
workstation and providing details of your setups and links to
appropriate places! Idea about connecting keyboard, mouse and monitor
with looong cables is clearly thinking outside a box! :) Once i even
though myself about it but had forgotten, in fact i my case it is
possible to use not only room nearby but below (or upstairs, but attic
probably heats up a lot during summer).
One thing is sure, i am looking now at my currect 700 MHz Celeron with
much more confidence because as i learned surely so called older PC is
one viable option to make a noiseless setup. And i most probably just
find me a PCI video adapter which can do 1920x1200 over DVI, i am
surprised, but they seem to exist. Someplace the reasoning behind their
existance was that since usually there is only one slot for ordinary AGP
adapter then people needing dualhead with little bit older computers
have their only choice using a PCI slot for the other graphic adapter.
But I am surprised people aint using much VIA low-power offerings like
C3, Eden or C7 in a form of mini-itx motherboard.
And thank you very much for your attention!
Best regards,
Imre
Original Message
Subject: setting up a noiseless workstation
Date: Fri, 01 Feb 2008 20:16:49 +0200
From: Imre Oolberg [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: misc@openbsd.org
Hallo!
I am thinking of setting up for myself a noiseless workstation ie
without moving parts or at least with minimal amount of them. The
intension is to make it an X-terminal booting from local network,
preferable root-over-nfs thru pxe since i am most familiar with it
compared to flash memory disks etc.
With last 4.2 CD set and shirt came nice set of bulletins on Soekris and
Liantec computers. As i understood, Soekris is more for networking
hub-firewall and Liantec could be more appropriate for workstation,
espesially because it seems to be more so-to-say PC-like, has gigabit
ports and more options for graphics.
My main concern is how to accomodate 24 1920x1200 monitor (LCD 24
Samsung 245T S-PVA or something similar) with it, my main tools i intend
to use there are browser, xterm, etc and not computer aided design or
something requireing exeptional precision and picture quality but of
course, picture needs to be clear and stable.
I noticed the thing called Tiny-Bus from Liantec which can accomodate
some kind of graphic adapters
http://www.liantec.com/product/tbm/TBM_DVE.htm
but i am not sure it is the best chioce to build on. As an operating
system my first choice would OpenBSD and second is Linux. In fact at the
moment i run such a kind of setup using Linux but i feel need to upgrade
my hardware, i have old 700 MHz Celeron, 19 monitor (1024x768) and
100MBit/s network.
I would be very thankful if somebody could share their experience about
putting together such a kind of computer or what do you recommend.
Best regards,
Imre Oolberg
I called today some local shops and it seems my only option is to order
this computer from internet, as a whole or by parts.
