Re: Old x486 as thin client
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On Sat, Feb 07, 2004 at 12:56:35PM -0600, Mark Gillingham wrote:
> In your opinion, am I wasting my time doing this?
No. In fact, the local school districts recently were threatened by
Microsoft, the school districts gave MS the finger and switched to
Linux (in case you're wondering why k12ltsp exists).
> 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.
Why not just set up a real machine with Linux, lots of ram and disk,
and a fast network, use all the 486s as X servers, and just use X11?
X11 is a networking windowing system that just sends what it has to to
draw the screen, not what amounts to an animated GIF. Thus, each user
gets a *local* display running remote programs, not a remote display
crammed through a network running remote programs...
I'll be happy to quote you a rate if you want an answers that include
Windows.
- --
.''`. Paul Johnson <baloo@ursine.ca>
: :' :
`. `'` proud Debian admin and user
`- Debian - when you have better things to do than fix a system
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