Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on April 15, 2005 05:35 AM
I have LTSP setup on an Ubuntu server which is capable of supporting PXE booted thin clients with either straight X or FreeNX. The setup works great on a 100mb switched network. FreeNX uses less bandwidth than X, but has a few quirks for me still, but can be used over slow links with decent performance.
I find that for an average user a P2-300 with a PCI card graphics card and 64mb RAM (NFS Swap too) works fine. For a power user having an AGP card instead of a PCI card makes a huge difference. Bumping the RAM up to 128mb makes it even snappier.
I am just using decent P2-300mhz - 500mhz and all the thin clients are quick with full sound and local device support. Even watching movies with mplayer, totem or real-player works good altho real-player lacks esound support still.
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Posted by: Anonymous Coward on April 15, 2005 05:35 AMI find that for an average user a P2-300 with a PCI card graphics card and 64mb RAM (NFS Swap too) works fine. For a power user having an AGP card instead of a PCI card makes a huge difference. Bumping the RAM up to 128mb makes it even snappier.
I am just using decent P2-300mhz - 500mhz and all the thin clients are quick with full sound and local device support. Even watching movies with mplayer, totem or real-player works good altho real-player lacks esound support still.
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