>General question? - are boot prom's proprietary or can the same boot
>prom be moved to various NIC's?
Follow the link to Etherboot www.slug.org.au/etherboot :-)
Etherboot is GPLed. The ROMs are NIC specific of course, there is no
universal NIC design.
>Thinclients will probably run into the same problem, unless the client
>is written to do all the gui grunt, so that can rule out cheap
>hardware.
>
>Then the problem will be the networking. I noticed that none of the
>costings included network upgrades to handle the extra network
>traffic.
Have a look at some of the typical sites mentioned in LTSP and on the
mailing list. Clusters of some 60-70 clients on a 100 Mb network have
been done.
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