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From: Ryan Viljoen <ravilj@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] LTSP server requirements
Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2005 09:13:44
Message-Id: deb20110512120104k1b96822ald1fe8e804a61b24a@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] LTSP server requirements by Martins Steinbergs
1 On 12/11/05, Martins Steinbergs <mar@××.lv> wrote:
2 > hi,
3 >
4 > I'm considering to setup LTSP server with one terminal (old IBM Pentium 200Mh
5 > RAM32) attached. If i get from windows box one specific dos application and
6 > all data run under dosbox I'll go for LTSP unless there should be expensive
7 > hardware upgrades on server what I'm googling around cant find or info is
8 > sort of outdated. Terminal will launch dosbox, whatever browser to access
9 > bank, OO and some solitare. Server then should be this AMD Athlon 64 / 3200
10 > with 512 RAM, two 30GB and 180GB Maxtor 7,2K rpm ATA drives, 1,2GB swap. Is
11 > this enough for one terminal with server still runing desktop. Somewhere
12 > heard that each terminal takes 100MB RAM, is it true? What else I should take
13 > in account?
14 >
15 >
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17 That would be perfect, you may run out of ram though depending on what
18 you run on the server and client.
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22 stare at you blankly and say "Hey, I got those with the system, for
23 free". - Linus Torvalds, 1995
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