On Sun, 13 Jan 2002, Ryan wrote: > My little brother needs his computer, but we'd prefer not to buy him a new > system because he doesn't need to do more then browse the web and type papers > for now.
Wow. A family that thinks logically :) > > After thinking about this for a while I've decided I'd like to use the > Pentium-120 that is currently my firewall as a Remote X Termnial with the > actual processes running on another box in order to keep administration easy. > > So, anyone here know of a fairly simple to set up, very easy to use X > Termnial solution? Will this sort of thing work ok on a 10Mbps netwok, or > will I need to upgrade to 100Mbps? > Remote displaying of web pages + abiword should be just fine at 10Mbps, however, I would think that if he only wants web browsing and text editing, why bother? A p-120 should be more than capable of running X at a decent enough speed for that. What you could do if you wanted easy administration is boot him off a floppy distribution, or maybe even put a restricted install on a small harddrive, and nfs mount the home directories from another server. 10mbit should also be more than fine for nfs'ing abiword files over :) -Gabe _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
