From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Aug 7 23:11:29 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0541716A4E2 for ; Mon, 7 Aug 2006 23:11:29 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cpghost@cordula.ws) Received: from fw.farid-hajji.net (fw.farid-hajji.net [213.146.115.42]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 351F043D45 for ; Mon, 7 Aug 2006 23:11:28 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from cpghost@cordula.ws) Received: from epia2.farid-hajji.net (epia-2 [192.168.254.11]) by fw.farid-hajji.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id BDCDDDE471; Tue, 8 Aug 2006 01:09:07 +0200 (CEST) Date: Tue, 8 Aug 2006 01:12:02 +0200 From: cpghost To: Nagy L?szl? Message-ID: <20060807231202.GA9552@epia2.farid-hajji.net> References: <44D79242.3050108@enternet.hu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <44D79242.3050108@enternet.hu> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Thin terminals for FreeBSD X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 07 Aug 2006 23:11:29 -0000 On Mon, Aug 07, 2006 at 09:19:30PM +0200, Nagy L?szl? wrote: > I need to setup an environment where some users (10 to 20 employees) > will use terminals to run programs. They need to run a few popular > programs: thunderbird, firefox, adobe acrobat, openoffice and gaim. This I'm using EPIA 5000 mini-ATX boards with 512 MB RAM, diskless booting from an NFS server. They load X.org and everything else on demand. Compared to local HDDs, there's a small performance hit when loading programs [and those boards are not the fastest, though 100% silent ;-)], but users here are happy enough with them. > - Do I need to use gigabit ethernet? Or is it enough to use a normal 100 > Mbps wired network? I heard that there can be bandwidth problems when > using many terminals, but I do not have experience. For a diskless setup, 100 MB switched on the client side is enough; but you'd definitely prefer gigabit ethernet on the NFS server. > - Are there any pitfalls that I need to be aware of? Locking over NFS is a bit buggy. I had some trouble running thunderbird and firefox, as they seem to hang on some thr_*() call, and gconfd can be a bitch too over NFS, if the permissions on an NFS-mounted /tmp are not set correctly (/tmp as md ramdisk is fine though). No other known pitfalls here so far. > It would be perfect to provide links to some articles or manuals - I do > not need anyone to write detailed instuctions and do my job. I'm asking > for help because the handbook was not very useful in this case. I only > found this: > > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/term.html#TERM-X > > It does not help too much, and there is no know-how. I really need to > know what hardware I need to buy. > > Thank you > > Laszlo Regards, -cpghost. -- Cordula's Web. http://www.cordula.ws/