Thin terminals for FreeBSD

[Derek Ragona]

In these days of commodity PC pricing running X-terminals isn't really cost 
effective.  You'd be better off buying 10 - 20 identical PC's loading and 
configuring one, and then clone the drive for the rest.

Using X-terminals will likely cost more per unit, and produce more load on 
the server, the only positive to X-terminals is in configuration and 
maintenance.

That's my 2 cents anyway.

         -Derek



At 02:19 PM 8/7/2006, =?ISO-8859-2?Q?Nagy_L=E1szl=F3?= wrote:

>  Hello,
>
>I need to setup an environment where some users (10 to 20 employees) will 
>use terminals to run programs. They need to run a few popular programs: 
>thunderbird, firefox, adobe acrobat, openoffice and gaim. This site will 
>be a customer service. We decided to reduce the costs by using Open Source 
>software and cheap terminal computers. This is a good solution because 
>most of the users will read messages and images on the screen and they can 
>share the same processor and memory easily. I know that I can setup cheap 
>computers and use its X server as a terminal for another central computer. 
>This solution still requires new (or used) computers. I would like to 
>reduce the costs to the minimum. Here are some key questions that I could 
>not answer:
>
>- Is there a more cost-effective solution? (Something that I did not think of)
>- How much RAM will I need? Will FireFox Thunderbird and OpenOffice load 
>shared objects and reduce the overall memory usage? Or should I reserve 
>256MB of memory for each client?
>- Do I need to use gigabit ethernet? Or is it enough to use a normal 100 
>Mbps wired network? I heard that there can be bandwidth problems when 
>using many terminals, but I do not have experience.
>- Are there any pitfalls that I need to be aware of?
>
>It would be perfect to provide links to some articles or manuals - I do 
>not need anyone to write detailed instuctions and do my job. I'm asking 
>for help because the handbook was not very useful in this case. I only 
>found this:
>
>http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/term.html#TERM-X
>
>It does not help too much, and there is no know-how. I really need to know 
>what hardware I need to buy.
>
>
>Thank you
>
>   Laszlo
>
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