[KLUG Members] Re: Linux in high schools.

[Adam Tauno Williams]

>>>My ignorance is showing again in the face of your FLA. What does
>>>"LTSP" expand out to?
>>Linux Terminal Server Project - basically thin-client services for
>>Linux.  Usually used to turn old sleds (Pentium class with 16~32Mb)
>>into diskless graphical terminals over ethernet.
>Sounds cool. The Pocket Linux I was mentioning earlier is CLI ... but 
>runs in ~8 meg of ram. 

LTSP "client" will run in 8Mb as well,  for low resolution and "simple"
desktops.  A 1024x768x16 will run in 16Mb if the user doesn't get too carried
away (star office + gimp with a couple large images + galeon + DataManager + ggv
+ 9 gnome terminals is about what is takes to kill a 16Mb LTSP client).  With
24Mb it is very hard to make the LTSP client die, until you start streaming
audio on top of all that.  With 32Mb I've never had an audio-enabled LTSP client
give up.

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