Date: Mon, 7 Aug 2006 21:02:42 -0700 (PDT) From: Girish Venkatachalam <girish1729@yahoo.com> To: Nagy "L�szl�" Zsolt <nagylzs@freemail.hu>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Cheap terminals for FreeBSD Message-ID: <20060808040242.17300.qmail@web35608.mail.mud.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <44D7BC25.2060908@freemail.hu>
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--- Nagy L�szl� Zsolt <nagylzs@freemail.hu> 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. I know that I > can setup a computer and use its X server as a > terminal for another > 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 need to know what > hardware I need to buy. Did u look at this? http://cambuca.ldhs.cetuc.puc-rio.br/multiuser/ I am sure you can do something similar for FreeBSD too. regards, Girish > > 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" > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
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