Re: [OS:N:] Open source in Education - with senior citizens

[Gary Frederick <gary frederick jsoft com>]

We run our classroom on a PII 450 with 384Mb ram. It serves:

terminal P150 with 96Mb
PII ? 500MHz with 384 Mb ram - runs W98 or ltsp terminal
laptop XP or ltsp terminal
PlayStation 2 Linux :-)

I found it interesting that the machine running W98 and ltsp seems to run as fast with both. Running ltsp over the network on a server that is smaller feels as fast as running W98 native.

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What is the smallest configuration for running k12ltsp/Linux? The seniors may want to have Linux at home on a small machine after Brandon shows them how.

Gary

Peter Billson wrote:
> Brandon, You don't need a real wiz-bang server to get started. I run
> LTSP for a library with 7 workstations on nothing more then an old
> desktop PII 450 with 370Mb ram. Provides Web surfing and Word
> Processing to the public and works fine.
>
> There is also a thing in LTSP for running applications locally (aka
> on the workstation), which will reduce the load on the server.
>
> Pete