Re: [LUG] linux in schools - terminal ... man

[Nick Kew <nick@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, 1 Sep 2002, Steve Marvell wrote:

> OK, so I've just convinced the school I'm starting teaching Maths at
> to "go opensource". I've also become sysadmin, which is kinda cool.

Splendid!

> There is a seriously beefy server and a load of old pentiums, so I'm
> thinking xdm sessions.

Are those seriously old pentiums?

Unless they're really too feeble for desktop use (eg < 32Mb RAM),
you could perfectly well run real apps on them, just so long as
you steer clear of certain heavyweight modern desktop environments.

> I seem to remember someone was a bit of a terminal server man round
> here and I was wondering of there was a standard linux config for just
> turning a box into an xdm client.

Can't help you there, though someone else already posted a suggestion.

-- 
Nick Kew



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