Re: [OS:N:] newbie

[Etienne Goyer <etienne goyer linuxquebec com>]

Robert Citek wrote:
> And how powerful are your machines that you have?  I ask because a full 
> install of Red Hat 9 or Fedora Core or most other Linux distros is going 
> to take about 6 BG of space (including swap and all the goodies).  Also 
> if you wish to run a full-featured GUI desktop like Gnome or KDE, I 
> would recommend a 800 MHZ CPU and a minimum 128 MB of RAM.

Keep in mind that he want to use LTSP, thus use his PC as X terminal. 
In this scenario, hardware specs are irrevelant.

Installing a full-blown distro on each PC may be an alternative to which 
there is advantage and drawback.  On the advantage front, performance 
will probably be much better (especially for things like watching 
video), it will be easier to make use of peripheral such as CD-writer, 
etc.  On the downside, the amount of system administration required will 
grow exponentially, the environnement may not be consistent, no 
centralized home directory (unless he mount /home over NFS), etc.

I wish I was in his area; this sound like an interesting project.

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