From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Sep 29 9:37:56 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from castor.ssimicro.com (birch.ssimicro.com [199.247.51.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E09E2155B9 for ; Wed, 29 Sep 1999 09:37:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from allanr@ssimicro.com) Received: from outpost.ssimicro.com (outpost.ssimicro.com [199.247.87.133]) by castor.ssimicro.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA04934 for ; Wed, 29 Sep 1999 10:37:17 -0600 (MDT) Received: by outpost.ssimicro.com with Internet Mail Service (5.5.1960.3) id ; Wed, 29 Sep 1999 10:35:22 -0600 Message-ID: From: Allan Ross To: "'questions@freebsd.org'" Subject: X from the server Date: Wed, 29 Sep 1999 10:35:21 -0600 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.1960.3) Content-Type: text/plain Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG So we have convinced the local library that there is hope for their old 486 systems. They have received several of these from a program called "Computers for Schools". What we have suggested is connecting these to a central server and run FreeBSD on all of them. This would allow all of these clients to run Netscape from the server in an x window. There is an old P-166 available to run as a server. Anyone have any real world experience playing with this? What kind of performance can we expect? At what point will this be unworkable? 3 workstations? 4? Thanks! Allan Ross General Manager Ph: (867) 669-7500 SSI Micro Fax: (867) 669-7510 Yellowknife, NT http://www.ssimicro.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message