Low-cost multi-user Linux terminal server?

[Rob Becker]

In my experience a Duron 750 with about 512M of RAM on a 10Mbit hub
worked fine for three clients.  The performance wasn't super snappy, but
it was not slow enough that anyone complained.  The lower end you are
proposing may cause slow startup times on OO, but should probably be
tolerable.  Your best bet may be to test with the hardware you have on
hand and see if the performance is acceptable with three clients.  You
may be wise to look into using ICEwm or some other low resource window
manager to free up resources for your apps.  Also look carefully into
what services are running on the term server versus what needs to be
running.  Trim your services down to free up more resources.  I hope
this helps.  If you have further questions, please feel free to send
them my way.  

-----Original Message-----
From: webgiant at juno.com [mailto:webgiant at juno.com] 
Sent: Thursday, July 15, 2004 9:07 AM
To: crash3m at gmail.com
Cc: kclug at kclug.org
Subject: Re: Low-cost multi-user Linux terminal server?

> the CPU can be as slow as you want, its 
> all in what kinda performance you are 
> expecting to get out of the setup.  I'd 
> be willing to be that with a gig of ram 
> and only 450Mhz that your CPU is going 
> to be the bottleneck, permitting your 
> not on a 10Mbit network of course.

No kidding, but I'm still wondering (and I'll be a lot more clear this
time):

Server has 1GB RAM, will support three users all of whom may be using
OpenOffice at the same time.  The network is 100Mbit and its a switch
not a hub.  What is the bare minimum processor to use to support the
OpenOffice needs of those three users?

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