Linux Terminal Server Essay

[Mitch Anderson]

There is a Government down in Florida that is doing such a thing.  their
city building(s) are all terminal servers... I don't remember the links
exactly but there have been a number of news sites that have done
writeups on them and even some of the stats of the main server... The
main server if I recall correctly wasn't "TOO" beefy... If I remember
correctly it was just a Dell PowerEdge something or other... with Dual
800 - 900 P3(Possibly Xeons) and 2GB Ram, which to my understanding of
the article RAM was the key factor on both the server and the client. 
But they had two servers just to split the load but they said they could
get about 250 on each server.(I think they were running 100-150 on each)
and they were just buying cheap thin clients on ebay for $15 or less,
and then they just had the expense of a keyboard, mouse and monitor. 
I'll look to see if I can find the articles again... but I know there
was atleast one of them on ZDNet.  But they were doing it on a 100MB
network and the employees liked the linux terminal setup more than they
did their previous windows boxen.  No one complained about slowness, so
the 1gb is a bit much if you ask me...

I'll reply with the URL's when/if I find them

Mitch

On Fri, 2003-04-04 at 11:50, Mike wrote:
> I am writing an argument paper about using a Linux Terminal Server to
> run the college's network. I would appreciate it if you would send all
> of the information on performance, reliablility, and expense to get
> running that you could. Also, one thing was brought to my attention that
> made me wonder: I was talked to about the whole theory behind it. It was
> brought to my attention that you have at most a 1gigahertz cap. Bearing
> that in mind, all the processing is done on the server and then sent
> out. Now, the argument that I heard today was that it would be
> intolerably slow, as the server has to do everything and send it out to
> x number of clients over a limited bandwidth (1ghz).
> 
> Any help that anyone can give me about this issue would be most helpful.
> Please, don't send the LTSP.org. I have gone there and seen that.
> -- 
> One Person can make a difference IF they have the support of a lot of
> people -- MRM
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