Cheap terminals for FreeBSD

[Nagy László Zsolt]

  Hello Sergio,

You are the guy that I was waiting for. :-) Now I know for sure that it 
will work.
I only have one question. How do you setup the sound card? The programs 
are running on the server, right? Then how can use use the sound card?
Is it that 'noisy' programs are running from the diskless machines? Or 
do you use TCP/IP based sound servers?
Thanks,

   Laszlo
> Em Ter, 2006-08-08 às 00:18 +0200, Nagy László Zsolt escreveu:
> Hello....
>
> Here I have several units running FreeBSD 6.1 with diskless
> using a big server and several clients (20-30) thin clients...
>
> it is very fast..  (the openoffice starts in 5 seconds...)...
>
> I recomend:
>
> 1) server AMD64 socket 939 with 2Gb of memory, network adapter Gigabit 
> ethernet.
>     200Gb hd,  gnome 2.14 or 2.15 installed packages: gnome2, 
> gnome2-fifht-toe, gnome2-power-tools,
>     linux-flashplugin7, java jdk1.4, mplayer-plugin, xine.azureus, 
> openoffice.org-2.0.2....
>
> 2) thin clients:  any machine with 64Mb of memory 100mbits ethernet, 
> sound, usb.
>     video of 1024x768 16 bits... 
>
> 3) switch with a gigabit port....  any (planet, encore...)   I do not 
> see any difference from a 3com...
>
> 4) FreeBSD 6.1 on the server with a kernel prepared to boot on PXE.  
> (see the manual...)
>
> it is cheap (here the server is about 600 dollars for 40 clients -> 
> about 15$ for client...
> I bought the peaces and mount it... asus MB... sata....
> there is no mouse/keyboard/monitor on the server... and is incredible 
> fast...
> the main trick is to index the icons for the gnome-desktop on server 
> startup... it works
> great using epiphany, gimp, evolution, ekiga(runnin on the client...), 
> gaim, openoffice, azureus...
> about 640 packages installed..  the server runs about 1200 tasks, with 
> idle of 80-90 %.
>
> Now I am considering using thin clients from http://en.xynetsoft.com
>
> for you to have an idea check a "desktop screenshot"  at: 
> http://www.k1.com.br/screens/tela1.jpg
> this is the result of a screenshot in the thin-client...   The 
> language used is  portuguese, but you
> can have an idea of...
>
> Sergio.
>