Low-cost multi-user Linux terminal server?

[Jason Clinton]

webgiant at juno.com wrote:

>So a system which can support 1GB of RAM probably can support three users in a classroom setting 
involving the writing of essays on the computer, but how fast does the processor need to be?  Can I 
install your LTSP solution on a PentiumII-400Mhz system I've installed two 512MB SDRAM DIMMs into?  
Or should the processor be at least 750Mhz to 850Mhz?
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It will be painfully slow but it will work, for sure.

The bottleneck here is mostly the memory bandwidth. There's a lot of
memory related operations in OpenOffice.org.