[Sussex] Re: any freenx experience?

[Diego Moore]

Spot on with your guess.

I love the idea of a 3 sec boot time and will look into it as I was
considering using pxes/tftp.

Not sure X will do the trick as I will also like to logon from
windows, hence freenx.

Does anyone know if pxes will work over wifi? That would be impressive!

Regards,
Diego

On 6/3/06, John Crowhurst <fyremoon at fyremoon.net> wrote:
> On Sat, June 3, 2006 00:04, Diego Moore wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I've been giving this a thought recently and want to change the
> > current setup at home.
> >
> > Bacically the main machine in the study does not remain on 24/7
> > becaise of the noise and heat (despite getting a decent case, but then
> > 3 hd's can't help!).
> >
> > My main cocerns in swapping the server in the loft to be a thin client
> > would be boot time and graphics as we have a 21" monitor
> > (1600x1200 at 85) and its an old celeron 500mhz with integrated video.
>
> My guess is that you wish to move the noisy and hot computer into your
> loft and have a desktop machine with a good gfx card as the client
> machine.
>
> I would use the distributive properties of X to run an X server on the
> client machine and call the applications from the server.
>
> You could upgrade the BIOS to Linux BIOS and set up etherboot. Or boot
> from a prepared Linux CD.
>
> > So silly question, but will having a decent card on the server help?
> > What aboug boot times?
>
> LinuxBIOS will give you a 3 second boot time. Stick the decent card in the
> client as its better to not run a GUI on the server as it would be a
> performance degradation.
>
> Here are some ASCII art diagrams on how NX works:
> http://openfacts.berlios.de/index-en.phtml?title=NX_Components
>
> --
> John
>
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