[K12OSN] high-end desktop machine as a server?

[Rob Owens]

Would you recommend Firefox instead of Mozilla?  What about a lightweight alternative to OpenOffice?  Kwrite perhaps, for the simple stuff?  I realize OpenOffice is a heavyweight, but I like it because the kids can run it on their home computers, which will most likely be Windows machines.

I use IceWM at home and I love it because it loads instantly, unlike KDE and GNOME.

-Rob

 --- On Sun 11/07, Dennis Daniels < ddaniels at magic.fr > wrote:
From: Dennis Daniels [mailto: ddaniels at magic.fr]
To: k12osn at redhat.com
Date: Sun, 07 Nov 2004 08:12:07 -0800
Subject: Re: [K12OSN] high-end desktop machine as a server?

We have the same goals!<br><br>Go with ICEWM, stay away from Moz and don't let more than a few people <br>use OO at any one time. There are some docs on getting multiple servers <br>on the same network using XDMCP chooser and NFSing the home directories <br>but the docs are kind of old and thin. Getting low-end machines to act <br>as servers is cool but the (our) reality is hours of fidgeting with <br>small successes... have a look here:<br><br>http://www.k12ltsp.org/phpwiki/index.php/RecentEdits<br><br>The real bugaboo is getting NFS to play nice...<br><br>I tried to doc the process as we worked through K12 4.1<br><br>best<br>Dennis<br><br><br>norbert wrote:<br>> robowens at myway.com wrote:<br>> <br>>> This topic has been hit upon in some other threads, but I thought it <br>>> was worthy of it's own. <br>>> Can anybody relate their experiences with using a newer desktop <br>>> machine as their server?  For instance, something like a 2.4 GHz <br>>> single processor with IDE ha!
rd drives.  How many clients can run on <br>>> such a machine, using apps like OpenOffice, Mozilla, and possibly the <br>>> GIMP?<br>>><br>>> The school in my town has a computer in each classroom that is for the <br>>> teacher to use.  These are a year or two old.  I think it would be <br>>> great to hook a bunch of thin clients to it so that the kids can get <br>>> in on the action, but I'd like to know what to expect performance-wise <br>>> before I approach the school about this.<br>>><br>>> -Rob<br>>><br>>> _______________________________________________<br>>> No banners. No pop-ups. No kidding.<br>>> Make My Way your home on the Web - http://www.myway.com<br>>><br>>> _______________________________________________<br>>> K12OSN mailing list<br>>> K12OSN at redhat.com<br>>> https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/k12osn<br>>> For more info see <http://www.k12os.org><br>>>  <br>>><br>> Hi Rob,<br>> <br>> Maybe you're asking the wrong question ...... but here goes anyway;<br>!
> <br>> P-IV 2.4 Ghz with 1.5 Gb mem., 40 GB hD can handle 15!
  to 20 c
lients but <br>> that depends on the applications.<br>> <br>> Now if the "teacher" computers can be clustered, this willl depend on <br>> distance, then 5 such machines could handle 100 clients. The point is we <br>> need more info on the layout, use and detailed spec on the computers.<br>> <br>> good luck<br>> norbert<br>> <br>> _______________________________________________<br>> K12OSN mailing list<br>> K12OSN at redhat.com<br>> https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/k12osn<br>> For more info see <http://www.k12os.org><br>> <br>> <br><br>_______________________________________________<br>K12OSN mailing list<br>K12OSN at redhat.com<br>https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/k12osn<br>For more info see <http://www.k12os.org><br>

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