Re: [K12OSN] Using iBooks as Thin Clients

[anthony baldwin <anthonybaldwin snet net>]

cliebow wrote:
> Jim: note erics post...this could be really cool...chuck
> Jim Kronebusch wrote:
>
> > You are correct that running X on top of OSX is sluggish.  I had better
> > luck when I booted into a single user environment and only had X running
> > with the query option, faster very usable, but still not up to my
> > standards (a 300MHZ terminal with Intel hardware faster than a 600MHZ
> > mac).  I imagine the way you suggest would be the fastest, just haven't
> > had the time to get one running and compare yet.

I should try that.  Do you suppose, since I have Fink on my iBook that I 
could boot to single user mode and startx then startkde and have kde 
running without aqua?  I'm going to try that.  Or, perhaps I would have 
to find KDE for Darwin without aqua, or something.
Honestly, though, I can run OS X apps like Keynote alongside KDE apps 
and still see my iBook outperform a PC with twice the CPU.
Let's see, last year for a prodev unit I taught on finding and using 
internet resources in the curiculum, I ran netscape, keynote, and 
openoffice.org all at once, then started KDE (with Fink) and 
demonstrated gPeriodic and kstars all at once on my 7oomhz G3 with 640mb 
ram.
She didn't even blink.

Now, seems I've been sleeping on the list...Did I hear someone say 
K12ltsp for PPC?  That would an answer to a dream!  I found a whole 
stash of older Macs in a closet at school and was thinking about 
reviving them with YDL, but if I could shie -em up with K12, I'd be 
grinning.

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Anthony Baldwin
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