[SATLUG] Donations? OT

[Sean Carolan]

On 3/16/07, Hector Bojorquez <hector.bojorquez at gmail.com> wrote:
> Coolness.. downloading to test now...

If you need any help with that, let me know.  We used LTSP at my last
job to power the sales rep computers.  A couple pointers:

*  Some old motherboards or NIC cards do not play nice with PXE boot.
One option is to buy a bunch of identical cheapo NIC cards so you can
configure them all exactly the same, even if you have different types
of computers.  It's not fun to chase down a different boot image for
each of ten different types of ethernet cards.

*  Multiple simultaneous users with Firefox, OpenOffice, and Adobe
Acrobat all open at the same time can really bog the server down.
Using a dual-core or dual-processor setup on the server can help
alleviate this.

*  pkill is your friend.  From time to time the workstations might get
locked up.  Or someone just has too many processes running on the
server, or their connection was lost, etc.  A quick "pkill -u
username" can solve this pretty quickly.  Or if you're feeling
persnickety, use the 'slay' script in "Beavis" mode.

*  Depending on your goals, you might want to lock some or all your
workstations down so they are more like "internet kiosk" type
machines.  Here's a bit more info on that:
http://www.edu.helsinki.fi/atk/ltsp_kiosk/

*  Once you get this thing up and running, you can find plenty of
businesses that are throwing away Pentium II and III machines.
Fortunately for you these are perfect for LTSP.  In fact pretty much
anything better than an Pentium 386 and 32mb RAM will work just fine
as a thin client.

Sean