Old x486 as thin client

[Mark Gillingham <markgill@greatbooks.org>]

I'm a newbie, but have some experience with rdesktop and Terminal 
Services on W2K. That is, I think it would be suitable for some 
purposes at our foundation. We have a number of old Zeos (AMD5x86) 
boxes with 300MB drives that are all alike so parts are available. I 
installed X11 on one and noticed that it took about 65% of the drive. I 
don't have X working yet (I need to configure for S3 Trio) so I can't 
test for myself. In your opinion, am I wasting my time doing this? If I 
am not wasting my time, is rdesktop suitable for my purpose of 
displaying normal Windows apps (e.g., Office). Thanks for your thoughts.

Mark