On Fri, 2004-12-10 at 14:43 -0500, tallison@tacocat.net wrote: > > On Fri, 2004-12-10 at 12:32 -0500, tallison@tacocat.net wrote: > >> > >> Invest in LTSP.org > >> > >> It will give you a terminal that can be very quiet with the horsepower > >> of > >> your workstation. I use a number of notebooks for these clients. The > >> hard drive is not running so there's zero noise and the power > >> consumption > >> is on the order of <10W. > >> > >> Very compatable. > >> Very easy to set up. > >> I think the entire learning curve is a good Sunday. > >> Assumption: It requires the following: > >> DHCP > >> DNS (optional) > >> tftpd > > > > Why would I need LTSP? I have Debian. > > > > I have been using Debian doing these kinds of things like forever. (Well > > before Debian twas RedHat and before that HPUX and etc...) > I assumed that "Nightstand" was to imply a small workstation with a strong > preference for very, very quiet operations. Also something that might be > left on for days at a time. He was asking about serial Terms too... so I felt DUMMY terminal or X-Terminal was implied. > Through LTSP (which works very nicely with Debian) you could configure a > client workstation to run a X-window session from the big, loud, hot > workstation/server you want to monitor. You still are not understanding. I have been using Debian exactly like LTSP for years. tftp booting, DNS, DHCP/BOOTP/RARP. At the place I work right now, I am in the process of finishing a tweak-out of server for Client serving via XDMCP login. Everything runs via the server in the data center. All the people that will use it, will be working from an X-Terminal, of which three types I have. The X-Term run from a bootable image off of my tftp/dhcp/ntp/print-server > But the hardware could be > configured in the BIOS to run without the hard drive or to spin down the > hard drive after one minute. X-Terminal == Exceptionally Quiet == NO moving parts typically > This would leave you with a very quiet machine that you could leave on for > hours or days at a time. > > Additionally it can be run from anything that is at least a 486 with > 16-32MB RAM. X-Terms usually only need the amount they come with. -- greg, greg@gregfolkert.net The technology that is Stronger, better, faster: Linux
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