On Wed, August 11, 2004 8:34 am, Peter Rundle said: > Simon, > >> 2. Is it possible to mix 'full' machines with LTSP machines? > > An alternative is to setup some LTSP machines to use 'local apps'. In > this configuration rather than the applications running on the server > with the X display being sent to the desktop, the servers file system(s) > are attached to the desktop using NFS and the applications run on the > CPU of the desktop. This means that the desktops hardware, such as USB > ports, are local to the GUI applications. But the software resides on > the filesystem of the server so you still get single point for software > update and user file storage, but you off-load the CPU resource to the > desktop PC.
Until about 10 minutes ago the clients were all P90 with 32MB RAM, but have just been offered a stack of PIII with a lot of RAM so this might be possible now. Thanks for that. -- Simon Bryan IT Manager OLMC Parramatta -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
