Date: Tue, 8 Aug 2006 09:14:05 +0700 (ICT) From: Olivier Nicole <on@cs.ait.ac.th> To: nagylzs@enternet.hu Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Thin terminals for FreeBSD Message-ID: <200608080214.k782E5D1094819@banyan.cs.ait.ac.th> In-Reply-To: <44D79242.3050108@enternet.hu> (message from =?ISO-8859-2?Q?Nagy_L=E1szl=F3?= on Mon, 07 Aug 2006 21:19:30 %2B0200) References: <44D79242.3050108@enternet.hu>
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> - Is there a more cost-effective solution? (Something that I did not > think of) We used to build (well my colleague did that) X terminals based on a thin configuration of freeBSD (must have been version 2 at that time) that we ran on diskless computers booting from floppy. At that time we ran it on pentium 100 MHz, with something between 16 and 32 MB RAM, over a 10 MB shared Ethernet. All applications ran on the cental server, and X terminals were just that: display devices. It was a bit slow, you could not look at a video, but otherwise it worked. Of course you need more horse power on the server, but if you have a set of old PC with similar video adapters, that's an easy solution to deploy once one machine is up. Olivier
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