[RULE] RULE minimum hw requirements

[Jason Bechtel]

Most 486s make decent LTSP terminals, but 386s
are just too slow for my taste.

Most 486s need to be given more RAM.  LTSP can do
just telnet or a full X11 desktop.  If you want
X, then you should have at least 16MB (32MB is
better) of RAM.  Even if you aren't running the
applications on the terminal, X allocates more
memory to manage each new window.  If you're just
going to run one graphical app, however, you
might be okay.

LTSP can do swap over NFS, but it's painfully
slow.  Better to swap locally if possible.

Jason
 

---- Begin Original Message ----
 From: "Rodolfo J. Paiz" <rpaiz at simpaticus.com>
Sent: Mon, 23 Feb 2004 12:02:40 -0600
Subject: Re: [RULE] RULE minimum hw requirements


At 07:01 2/22/2004, you wrote:
>Here in Greece we are still struggling with
486's and I even have a bunch 
>of 386's which I want to have a go at though
getting a larger hdd to work 
>with them is probably not possible. Perhaps just
a simple floppy and only 
>using the hdd for swap and some additional files??

Have you seen the Linux Terminal Server Project
[1]? You could boot the 386's off a floppy or
hard drive and use them as terminals if you have
a server. I have no experience with it, but it
just might work for you since that's precisely
the problem they try to solve.

---- End Original Message ----








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