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.