From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Aug 7 19:28:24 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 DDFA216A4DF for ; Mon, 7 Aug 2006 19:28:24 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from derek@computinginnovations.com) Received: from betty.computinginnovations.com (dsl081-142-072.chi1.dsl.speakeasy.net [64.81.142.72]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 041E043D69 for ; Mon, 7 Aug 2006 19:28:21 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from derek@computinginnovations.com) Received: from p17.computinginnovations.com (dhcp-10-20-30-100.computinginnovations.com [10.20.30.100]) (authenticated bits=0) by betty.computinginnovations.com (8.13.6/8.12.11) with ESMTP id k77JRmoO097135; Mon, 7 Aug 2006 14:27:48 -0500 (CDT) Message-Id: <6.0.0.22.2.20060807142417.02633998@mail.computinginnovations.com> X-Sender: derek@mail.computinginnovations.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 6.0.0.22 Date: Mon, 07 Aug 2006 14:27:30 -0500 To: =?ISO-8859-2?Q?Nagy_L=E1szl=F3?= , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: Derek Ragona In-Reply-To: <44D79242.3050108@enternet.hu> References: <44D79242.3050108@enternet.hu> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-ComputingInnovations-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-ComputingInnovations-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-ComputingInnovations-MailScanner-From: derek@computinginnovations.com X-Spam-Status: No Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: 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 19:28:25 -0000 In these days of commodity PC pricing running X-terminals isn't really cost effective. You'd be better off buying 10 - 20 identical PC's loading and configuring one, and then clone the drive for the rest. Using X-terminals will likely cost more per unit, and produce more load on the server, the only positive to X-terminals is in configuration and maintenance. That's my 2 cents anyway. -Derek At 02:19 PM 8/7/2006, =?ISO-8859-2?Q?Nagy_L=E1szl=F3?= wrote: > Hello, > >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 site will >be a customer service. We decided to reduce the costs by using Open Source >software and cheap terminal computers. This is a good solution because >most of the users will read messages and images on the screen and they can >share the same processor and memory easily. I know that I can setup cheap >computers and use its X server as a terminal for another central computer. >This solution still requires new (or used) computers. I would like to >reduce the costs to the minimum. Here are some key questions that I could >not answer: > >- Is there a more cost-effective solution? (Something that I did not think of) >- How much RAM will I need? Will FireFox Thunderbird and OpenOffice load >shared objects and reduce the overall memory usage? Or should I reserve >256MB of memory for each client? >- 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. >- Are there any pitfalls that I need to be aware of? > >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 > >_______________________________________________ >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" > >-- >This message has been scanned for viruses and >dangerous content by MailScanner, and is >believed to be clean. >MailScanner thanks transtec Computers for their support. > -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. MailScanner thanks transtec Computers for their support.