[leglug-users] Running Linux on old PCs

[BashLogic]

ltsp is a a short term for linux terminal server project
the aim and the way it functions is that you have one big machine with more ram
and you have 10-40 "dumb clients" or diskless clients.
the way it works is that all of them are connected to the same network
(swtich/hub)
and the smaller computers boot with pxe (pxe is a feature in network
cards that enables booting of the network, not all nic have pxe) so
what happens you boot the system, pxe gets its ip from dhcp and loads
an image with tftp once done, that image runs locally a small kernel
and an x windows/client, what you get is a standard pc desktop but
instead of tha pplications running locally they run on the big server
that has more ram.

so the role of the big server (ltsp server) is to provide dhcp,dns,
tftp, bootimage, xserver and disk space.

regards
BL

On 8/3/07, Mohammed Shublaq <moshub at riseup.net> wrote:
> what about LTSP??
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ltsp
> http://www.ltsp.org/
>
> --
>
>
>
> On Fri, August 3, 2007 2:22 pm, Abdallah Deeb wrote:
> > Hello Imad,
> >
> > Glad you found my email :)
> > I'm forwarding your email to the Lebanese Linux Users Group to get
> > their opinion on the matter. This way you'll have more hands working
> > on your solution.
> >
> > Best Regards,
> >
> > On 8/3/07, Imad Sleiman <sleimani at un.org> wrote:
> >>
> >> Dear Mr. Deeb,
> >>
> >> It was nice meeting you, and I hope I will have the chance to meet  with
> >> you
> >> soon. As I explained to you on the phone, ESCWA has some old PCs
> >> (PT-III,
> >> 128 MB RAM, 6GB to 20 GB HDD) it wants to distribute for the purpose of
> >> community development in rural areas of Lebanon. The PCs will have
> >> open-source software installed. However, most of the popular Linux OS
> >> require a minimum of 256 MB RAM such as UBUNTU and SUSE. I have found
> >> one OS
> >> that runs confortably on ESCWA's old systems and is called Puppy Linux.
> >> I
> >> have made some preliminary tests and appeared suitable for most general
> >> purpose applications. However, I was not able to run Arabic.
> >>
> >> Could you direct me to Linux versions that run on older systems and have
> >> Arabic interfaces or are Arabic enabled?
> >>
> >> I would appreciate hearing from you soon.
> >>
> >> Best regards
> >> Imad Sleiman
> >
> >
> > --
> > Abdallah Deeb
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