hi all.....
OckerHill LTSP case study at:-
http://people.redhat.com/mherbert
--------------------------------- key issues:- - 386/486 are ok in theory, but usually in practice defeated by the Graphics cards. Go for P75 minimum
Some of the early pentium machines appear fussy about video cards. Possibly an issue of card not being backwards compatable to the older PCI spec.
- 16Mb RAM is ok, but StarOffice, GIMP and window movement can be 'blocky'. 32Mb no problem - 3c509 network cards (10Mb) are great, can supply them, with bootroms via Sandwell LEA
I have piles of generic RTL8139 cards, work fine with the etherboot code. But no obvious supplier of ROMS. Other than to see if a DIY option works. Also have quite a few D-Link cards, via-rhine chipset, though a little unusual in using 32 rather than 28 pin ROMS.
- LTSP servers _do_ need tuning....file max in particular
RAM can be a critical issue. More so than CPU.
- look to use the latest K12LTSP release (currently Gamma) or the recent LTS_3.0 release (RPM's). Both good - LTSP solutions can be provided commercially and as a _managed service_ but not in the Becta sense by a number of companies, names and addresses supplied off list
The Becta list looks highly political, also the spec looks "cooked" to the offerings of certain suppliers. -- Mark Evans St. Peter's CofE High School Phone: +44 1392 204764 X109 Fax: +44 1392 204763