Re: Welcome to Feisty Fawn

From: Shane Spencer <shane@bogomip.com>
Date: Wed Feb 14 2007 - 20:41:07 AKST

Yeh :) I fully understand how it works. Its neat that you can offer
something of that scale off a single system. What are the terminal
clients made of?

On 2/14/07, Damien Hull <dhull@digitaloverload.net> wrote:
> 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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