Re: [dprentice@uno.edu: Re: [seul-edu] linux needs]

[Jim Wildman <jawildman@cfanet.com>]

My experience says that a 166 with 64M of ram will hanlde at least 3
xclients.  If it had more RAM, it would handle more clients.  

It is really simple to do the basic stuff.  If you have X on the clients
already, then
on the server
	add a clause to /etc/X11/xdm/Xaccess to match the clients
	comment out the "0:" line in Xservers
	start xdm
on the client
	add X -query <server> 
	at the end of the boot sequence

If you want to install only what you need for the xclient, go to
http://www.solucorp.qc.ca/xterminals

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On Sun, 21 May 2000, Roger Dingledine wrote:

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> 
> Date: Sat, 20 May 2000 19:25:39 -0500
> From: Dave Prentice <dprentice@uno.edu>
> Subject: Re: [seul-edu] linux needs
> To: seul-edu@seul.org
> 
> Harry,
>     I have 6 Pentiums (a 75mhz, 3 90's, and a 166) that I could use as X
> servers for the 11 486s -- but I don't have a clue how to set up an xterm.
> (I'm still on the lower part of the Linux learning curve.) Where do I go to
> find out?
> Thanks,
> Dave Prentice
> prentice@instruction.com
> http://www.originsresource.org
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Harry McGregor <micros@azstarnet.com>
> To: seul-edu@seul.org <seul-edu@seul.org>
> Date: Saturday, May 20, 2000 6:20 PM
> Subject: Re: [seul-edu] linux needs
> 
> 
> >On Sat, 20 May 2000, Michael Viron wrote:
> >
> >> We've currently got 2 486/66's that we are using XWindows on with no
> >> problems (32 MB Ram, 1 + GB drive space) and before that we ran a
> >> relatively nice install off of a 486/66 with 16 MB ram and a 400M hard
> >> drive (including X).
> >
> >486 is a little slow for an Xworkstation, but it can work.
> >
> >One of the main labs I am working with is 32 Pentium 90MHz systems, 64MB
> >ram.  They take a good 2 minutes to load The GIMP (check out some of the
> >artwork the students did, http://www.osef.org).
> >
> >For AbiWord, I can see a 486 working as a station.
> >
> >> The lowest configuration I've ever personally installed X to was a 486/33
> >> with 8M Ram and a 300M hard drive.  (X was slow, but it did work).
> >
> >Xterm is about all that can do.  All you would need to do is setup one
> >GOOD system (probably a K6-2 or faster, 128MB ram) and then have the
> >clients run X -broadcast or X -query to find the Xserver.
> >
> >XTerminals are not exactly as ideal as you might think, in that the power
> >of the server required for many things can outway the cost benifit.
> >
> >For netscape, abi word, etc it would be fine.  Don't try to run StarOffice
> >or anything through WINE, or even The GIMP.
> >
> >> I'm pretty sure it would also be possible to run them as X-Terminals if
> you
> >> can't get the performance you want from installing X directly to the
> >> machine--anyone have an idea where documentation on that might be (been a
> >> while since I fiddled around with x-terms much)?
> >>
> >> Let me know if I can help either on or off the list!
> >>
> >> Michael Viron <mviron@wsdo.sao.uwf.edu>
> >> Chief System Administrator
> >> Web Spinners
> >
> >
> > Harry
> >
> >--
> >Harry McGregor, CEO, Co-Founder
> >hmcgregor@osef.org, (520) 202-OSEF (6733)
> >Open Source Education Foundation, http://www.osef.org
> >
> >
> 
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