From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Feb 16 22:57:26 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id WAA14961 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 16 Feb 1998 22:57:26 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id WAA14934 for ; Mon, 16 Feb 1998 22:57:13 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id WAA11356; Mon, 16 Feb 1998 22:57:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Mon, 16 Feb 1998 22:57:07 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: ST_ANNES cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Have an interesting project to do, thought of maybe using FreeBSD as an alternative to QNX... In-Reply-To: <01bd3b1f$32707e20$254906d0@techoffice> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 16 Feb 1998, ST_ANNES wrote: > I am a FreeBSD 2.2.2 user. I love the operating system, and I had an > idea. We used to have a system to which the schoolboard used, consisting > mainly of a single 486 "server", and a couple hundred or so ethernet > "terminals". Similar to what is called an "X-Term"...but a bit > different. Hm... diskless boot + X over NFS Assuming that each machine has the same configuration so you don't need XF86Config's for each individual box... What do your terminals have for capabilities? Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message