<p>The via cpu is poorly supported by most modern ltsp distros. K12ltsp is centos based and edubuntu is obvious.<br>
The via will work but is very weak for multimedia thus a full thin client is required.<br>
Servers take horsepower but not as much as you'd think. 100 clients ran ok from a single server with twin dual core opterons with 8 GB RAM. Disk was raid5 scsi3 and network was x4 bonded Gbit. That was big $$ in 2006 but now it's less than $1k for generic. A decent desktop can power your stack easy :-)<br>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Sep 23, 2011 10:05 AM, "Byron Jeff" <<a href="mailto:byronjeff@mail.clayton.edu">byronjeff@mail.clayton.edu</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution">> I've finally decided to make the move to a LTSP/Thinstation style thin<br>
> client setup and looking for some previous setup experiences. I have a need<br>> for 2 or 3 workstations at the house and I've just gotten tired of managing<br>> multiple machines. My hope is to collapse everything into a single server<br>
> and use these Wyse 941 GXL thin clients:<br>> <br>> <a href="http://www.wyse.com/products/hardware/thinclients/941GXL/index.asp">http://www.wyse.com/products/hardware/thinclients/941GXL/index.asp</a><br>> <br>
> which I picked up off Ebay for a song as the display frontend. The Wyse<br>> thinterms work fine off a PXE boot and the 1Ghz VIA C3 along with available<br>> PCI port makes it a usable frontend to drive high resolution displays.<br>
> <br>> So far I've been testing the thinterms with standalone bundles like<br>> Thinstation and Slax. It does work, but since we're talking about a 1 Ghz<br>> processor and max 1 GB RAM, it's a bit sluggish. What I'd like to figure<br>
> out is what is the modern way do to thin clients, and what cot effective<br>> server hardware would adequately support up to 4 users. In the old days the<br>> setup would be using the thin client as an X server which remotely<br>
> connected to the applications server. But with a ton of RDP protocols (VNC,<br>> X, NX, RDP) what's the modern choice?<br>> <br>> Second should clients be totally thin or is there better distribution with<br>
> a medium client that runs some apps (browser) locally and others remotely?<br>> <br>> What's the most important parameters for the applications server? Number of<br>> cores? Total available RAM? It's been so long since I've bought any CPU/MB<br>
> hardware I'm not really sure what's an effective basis for a comparison<br>> anymore.<br>> <br>> Any thoughts you can share would be greatly appreciated.<br>> <br>> Thanks.<br>> <br>> BAJ<br>
> <br>> -- <br>> Byron A. Jeff<br>> Department Chair: IT/CS/CNET<br>> College of Information and Mathematical Sciences<br>> Clayton State University<br>> <a href="http://cims.clayton.edu/bjeff">http://cims.clayton.edu/bjeff</a><br>
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