Re: Welcome to Feisty Fawn

From: Damien Hull <dhull@digitaloverload.net>
Date: Wed Feb 14 2007 - 13:15:56 AKST

I should be able to do 30 or more thin clients on a 64 bit dual core
processor with about two gigs of RAM. I'm shooting for 25 or 30. That
way they will have spare power for applications that work the cpu.

Thin clients can be placed all over the building. Plug them into the
appropriate switch/terminal server and away you go. :-)

Shane Spencer wrote:
> Ok :) 2/4/8 independant heads on one fast computer is a pretty good
> and very fast interface, just not an option one you are looking for.
>
> On 2/14/07, Damien Hull <dhull@digitaloverload.net> wrote:
>
>> This is not an option. Thin clients and terminal servers aren't that
>> expensive. They also give you more flexibility. Remember, most
>> companies, schools are using workstations. That's a lot more expensive
>> then a thin client setup.
>>
>> Shane Spencer wrote:
>>
>>> Damien, have you ever checked out Multi Terminal setups vs Remote
>>> Terminals? May help lower budget clients get 4 machines under the
>>> hood of one well equipped PC.
>>>
>>> I set this up at home using a highly custom method, its not in
>>> operation at the moment, however it works quite well.
>>>
>>> On 2/14/07, Damien Hull <dhull@digitaloverload.net> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>> How stable is stable? I need audio in LTSP and the one that should "just
>>>> work" is Feisty.
>>>>
>>>> adam bultman wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> I just upgraded my "outside" pc to fawn the other day. The PC doesn't
>>>>> reboot properly (like the computers of old, it isn't smart enough to
>>>>> reboot itself) and fawn seems rather nice, so far. Fairly stable,
>>>>> from a command-line point of view. Fawn also has proper drivers for
>>>>> the MEGARAID RAID card it has in it.
>>>>>
>>>>> Adam
>>>>>
>>>>> Damien Hull wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>> Check out the testing version of Ubuntu.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel-announce/2006-December/000225.html
>>>>>>
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