From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Aug 8 04:02:46 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 E720C16A4DD for ; Tue, 8 Aug 2006 04:02:46 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from girish1729@yahoo.com) Received: from web35608.mail.mud.yahoo.com (web35608.mail.mud.yahoo.com [66.163.179.147]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 859B143D45 for ; Tue, 8 Aug 2006 04:02:46 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from girish1729@yahoo.com) Received: (qmail 17302 invoked by uid 60001); 8 Aug 2006 04:02:42 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com; h=Message-ID:Received:Date:From:Subject:To:In-Reply-To:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding; b=f9IPoK7MChCcrhwP71g/R5QFoSRJxD2ecRF3FFE+zrJZeqXIr4xY5jI4T6ma9fHaK/I2i+YG2ZWPKcw6V7tFofWSnEmTe96xoU7Fx2Fa/6iJVFD/T7OjkctAoIZdDCMh2NkoUchCVpsSEHyw5v3opA5cBwDxgx8W4HdqS2lK5IE= ; Message-ID: <20060808040242.17300.qmail@web35608.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Received: from [59.92.50.34] by web35608.mail.mud.yahoo.com via HTTP; Mon, 07 Aug 2006 21:02:42 PDT Date: Mon, 7 Aug 2006 21:02:42 -0700 (PDT) From: Girish Venkatachalam To: Nagy "L�szl�" Zsolt , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <44D7BC25.2060908@freemail.hu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Cc: Subject: Re: Cheap 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: Tue, 08 Aug 2006 04:02:47 -0000 --- Nagy L�szl� Zsolt 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