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[NMLUG] Fast X Distribution for older hardware.
Try it with 512MB first. Do some load testing. Use openbox, or one of
the other slim desktops, and see if there's even a need for more RAM.
I really don't know how many kiosks you could reasonable support with
512MB. Firefox may be a lot thinner than Mozilla, but any HTML parser
just takes memory -- and that's before you start loading plugins.
Oh, yeah, on really-thin clients (browser kiosks), I use Firefox AS the
desktop, and automate the connections with bash, ssh keys for logins,
and have the kiosk user automatically logged in at boot.
simple, simple, simple. (Once you figure it out.)
jody
Tim Emerick wrote:
> Thanks for that suggestion Jody.
>
> As a matter of fact I do have a spare P4 Celeron 2.7ish GHZ machine with
> 512MB ram looking to do some real work. Wouldn't be a problem to throw some
> more ram in it and see how it all works out.
>
> Tim
>
> --- Jody Harris <havoc@harrisdev.com> wrote:
>
>>Tim,
>>
>>the machine I sit at and work from every day is a PII 366 w/288MB RAM,
>>20 GB hard drive and a burned up CD-ROM drive.
>>
>>I run SUSE LINUX 9.2, KDE, OpenOffice.org, Firefox, Konsole, Thunderbird
>>and Kontact.
>>
>>How?
>>
>>When I log onto this machine, I log into SUSE's "failsafe," which gives
>>me X and an xterm. From there, I ssh (-CX) to the AthlonXP 2500+/1GB
>>RAM in the back room, and kick off my KDE desktop with startkde.
>>
>>viola! Life is good AND fast.
>>
>>Now, all you have to have is one good, fast, well endowed (RAM) machine,
>>and you can multiply it into a dozen good, fast kiosks. You could build
>>the fast machine for less than $500.00, probably. Depending on what you
>>limited the clients to, you might get away with less for all 12
>>"kiosks." If you use a less greedy desktop, you're golden for sure.
>>
>>jody
>>
>>Tim Emerick wrote:
>>>I have about a dozen machines with the following configuration:
>>>PII-Celeron 300 Mhz
>>>3 gig HD's
>>>160MB RAM
>>>3com 3c905b NIC
>>>ATI Rage 3D on board
>>>Yamaha Sound on board
>>>
>>>I've been really hopeful that I could recycle these into some decent web
>>>browsing machines but have been fairly disappointed with the results up
>>to
>>>this point.
>>>
>>>I've used the Knoppix Live CD and the MEPIS (www.mepis.org) Live CD and
>>>wasn't too impressed. I've also installed the MEPIS distro onto the HD
>>of
>>>one machine just to see how it worked. Again, fairly dismal.
>>>
>>>I want to know if I'm asking too much for these older machines or am I
>>>running packages that are too top heavy? I know that both Knoppix and
>>Mepis
>>>are Debian/KDE based distros.
>>>
>>>Anybody have any experience with other distro's that might give me a
>>speedy
>>>yet user-friendly desktop and browser on these older machines?
>>>
>>>Thanks
>>>
>>>Tim
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