On Sunday 07 November 2004 15:32, Zvone Zagar wrote: <snip>
Well, I must explain you some other points. The latency of Mozilla over my openvpn LAN is not the biggest problem. At the office I have setup a fairly decent PC (2 GB of RAM, Celeron 2.6 GHz, software RAID-1 with Promise IDE 133 controller, SuSE 9.0). Clients are very very old PCs (Pentium 233 MHz, 64 MB RAM, 2 Gb HD, SuSE 9.0, WindowMaker - in the future also Icewm).
I think the Window Manager you are really looking for is qlwm. It is extremely light weight and yet provides all the modern conveniences... Although I haven't tried it myself yet...
Clients run almost all applications on server. Some clients work as print servers (LPRng, samba).
Hmmm, This sounds like a job for pxes... It's at least worth looking into...
Access to Internet is done using clients (FireFox). Up to the present time 10 ten users have been migrated from MS stuff. I plan 5 more users (so 15 or even more on one Celeron). The server has been running almost 60 days (I have only killed a few processes). If everything will go as planned, two more servers will be set up.
Here comes my question regarding VNC. Would be possible to use such a solution instead of ssh (-X -C). SuSE 9.2 is not yet arrived to our dealer. With SuSE 9.1 I have some glitches. Nevertheless SuSE 9.0 (Debian is an alternative) is going to stay on clients. Maybe some numbers regarding speed:
- OpenOffice 1.1.x is started in cca. 3 - 5 seconds - Mozilla needs up to 7s. <--- - Netscape 7.x up to 4s. <--- - Konqueror up to 5s.
I have many questions, but at first I must try to solve them myself. If there will be too many unsolved issues I will be heared in this marvellous list.
Your 3rd solution I am going to try with standalone Linux workstations. I have almost 30 users running SuSE 8.2 and 9.0 (a few of them even 8.0) I tried it from my private LAN and it worked (in SuSE, Konqueror in Debian Sarge - despite of proper File Associations - does not open OO. For the moment I do not care)
Many thanks Zvone Z.
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