Re: Old x486 as thin client
My 133MHz 5x86 with VLB video was just barely adequate to run X11.
The bottleneck is the video card, not the CPU. Same problems with a
50MHz 486DX2.
Jeffrey
Quoting 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
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