Date: Wed, 9 Aug 2006 10:25:51 -0400 From: "Ansar Mohammed" <ansarm@gmail.com> To: "Chris Shenton" <chris@shenton.org> Cc: Nagy L?szl? <nagylzs@enternet.hu>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Thin terminals for FreeBSD Message-ID: <768631270608090725j3b0fafbdo4d982ff8981564c8@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <86hd0mdm86.fsf@Bacalao.shenton.org> References: <44D79242.3050108@enternet.hu> <20060807231202.GA9552@epia2.farid-hajji.net> <86hd0mdm86.fsf@Bacalao.shenton.org>
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the EPIA's look nice but cost too much. For comparable performance you can retrofit an old netier XL2000 on ebay with a laptop hard drive. They are small, fanless and come with an AMD 400-450 Mhz proc. They usually go for about 10$ on ebay. You need to get an internal laptop IDE cable and a laptopn hard drive... they also support netboot! So yo dont really need the hard drive, On 8/9/06, Chris Shenton <chris@shenton.org> wrote: > > cpghost <cpghost@cordula.ws> writes: > > > 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. > > Ditto: I have one of these in my kitchen and like it -- no sysadm, > silent, etc. Not the fastest but mine is 3 years old. > > Only problem I've noticed is if Mozilla (or whatever) uses all the RAM > then X11 restarts, losing your sessions. Doesn't happen all the > time. One day I'll set up swap to run over the net. > > I really like the fact that I install stuff like Mozilla and other > software on one box (the server) and its immediately available around > the house on the rest of the boxes. The less sysadm I do the better. > > > >> - 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. > > I'm using switched 100Mbps ether but I only have the one diskless > client. I have a couple other clients mounting just some of the > filesystems over the net and would prefer GigE but it's not bad as it > is. > > I'd definitely do this diskless thing if I had 10-20 client terminals > to set up, like in an internet cafe or something. If they get wedged, > who cares: just power-cycle them. :-) > > > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to " > freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
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