[SATLUG] Computer donation

Jeremy Teale lists at thehunter.ws
Mon Aug 22 21:50:31 CDT 2005


I've seen 2 thin clients on Pentium 2 server with 256MB of RAM.  Performance 
was decent as long as everything was kept to a bare minimum.  Full desktop 
environments would seem totally unfeasible with your hardware.  What were you 
hoping to provide to the clients via LTSP?

On Friday 19 August 2005 6:23 pm, Jeremy Mann wrote:
> Hey guys/gals, my dad and I volunteer our time with a local
> ministry/halfway house. A company donated a ton of computer stuff.
> What I have in my garage now is about 15 monitors, some thin
> terminals, serial terminals and 2 HP Series 9000 Model E55 HP-UX
> servers. Since I volunteer my computer time to them, I'm curious if
> its worth a Linux LTSP install for the servers. I've never worked with
> this kind of a setup. Are those E55's capable of it? I found technical
> docs online and they are 96mhz with I think 256megs of RAM and all
> SCSI drives, tape drive and a floppy. I didn't see a CDROM drive.
>
> Anyway, I just thought somebody might have used these in the past. I
> haven't powered them on yet to see if they work so I hope they work


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