[Sussex] any freenx experience?

[John Crowhurst]

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