[H-GEN] Distro advice

[Robert Stanford]

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On Sat, 2003-01-25 at 01:55, Harry Phillips wrote:
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> Recently on the list Knoppix was discussed and in the past Linux Terminal
> Server Project (LTSP) has been mentioned. I liked things from both and would
> like to combine parts of them.
> 
> If you are not familiar with them, a brief over view.
> 1. LTSP lets you boot on a floppy and runs a Remote X session.
> 2. Knoppix is a bootable CD that will autodetect your hardware and comes
> with a preconfigured apps. (I tried it this morning and it was way cool.)
> 
> What I would like to do is boot the workstation from a floppy and then it
> loads all the apps from the server, the difference from LTSP is that the
> workstation does all the processing. My workstations are Celeron 1.7GHz with
> no CD-ROMs while the server is a Duron 900Mhz.

Sounds like a case of accepting a sunken cost (We've spent millions on
our solar powered umbrellas, we cant stop now or it'll all be lost).
Computing is very cheap nowadays and even the smallest new processor you
can buy is amazingly fast.
If you look back through the ltsp archives you will find that earlier
verions did just what was mentioned, mounting /usr etc off the server.
The only reason it was discontinued was due to architecture differences
between server and client. i386 machines don't seem too happy being fed
i686 binaries and libraries. You may find the same thing mixing athlon
and celeron.

At the end of the day its probably easiest to cram heaps of memory into
one of the cele 1.7 machines, make it the application server and accept
the loss of a few thousand bogomips.

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