[ale] Seeking opinions on Terminal Server setup

[jim.kinney at gmail.com (Jim Kinney)]

The via cpu is poorly supported by most modern ltsp distros. K12ltsp is
centos based and edubuntu is obvious.
The via will work but is very weak for multimedia thus a full thin client is
required.
Servers take horsepower but not as much as you'd think. 100 clients ran ok
from a single server with twin dual core opterons with 8 GB RAM. Disk was
raid5 scsi3 and network was x4 bonded Gbit. That was big $$ in 2006 but now
it's less than $1k for generic. A decent desktop can power your stack easy
:-)
 On Sep 23, 2011 10:05 AM, "Byron Jeff" <byronjeff at mail.clayton.edu> wrote:
> I've finally decided to make the move to a LTSP/Thinstation style thin
> client setup and looking for some previous setup experiences. I have a
need
> for 2 or 3 workstations at the house and I've just gotten tired of
managing
> multiple machines. My hope is to collapse everything into a single server
> and use these Wyse 941 GXL thin clients:
>
> http://www.wyse.com/products/hardware/thinclients/941GXL/index.asp
>
> which I picked up off Ebay for a song as the display frontend. The Wyse
> thinterms work fine off a PXE boot and the 1Ghz VIA C3 along with
available
> PCI port makes it a usable frontend to drive high resolution displays.
>
> So far I've been testing the thinterms with standalone bundles like
> Thinstation and Slax. It does work, but since we're talking about a 1 Ghz
> processor and max 1 GB RAM, it's a bit sluggish. What I'd like to figure
> out is what is the modern way do to thin clients, and what cot effective
> server hardware would adequately support up to 4 users. In the old days
the
> setup would be using the thin client as an X server which remotely
> connected to the applications server. But with a ton of RDP protocols
(VNC,
> X, NX, RDP) what's the modern choice?
>
> Second should clients be totally thin or is there better distribution with
> a medium client that runs some apps (browser) locally and others remotely?
>
> What's the most important parameters for the applications server? Number
of
> cores? Total available RAM? It's been so long since I've bought any CPU/MB
> hardware I'm not really sure what's an effective basis for a comparison
> anymore.
>
> Any thoughts you can share would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Thanks.
>
> BAJ
>
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> Byron A. Jeff
> Department Chair: IT/CS/CNET
> College of Information and Mathematical Sciences
> Clayton State University
> http://cims.clayton.edu/bjeff
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