advice for ubuntu on a small machine

[Eberhard Roloff]

J Bickhard wrote:
> On 5/22/09, Eberhard Roloff <tuxebi at gmx.de> wrote:
>> The optimal experience of Ubuntu on your machines would be to use a LTSP
>> Server based on Xubuntu or Edubuntu and then use your machine pool as
>> LTSP Clients.
> You could make one "super server" machine by taking RAM from the
> others, an LTSP Client doesn't need that much RAM, because the server
> is the one running the OS.
>> Of course this assumes that you can use a halway decent machine for a
>> server and that you will use a 100Mbit ethernet.
> I assume you mean "halfway"? Lol.

correct. On the other hand, the LTSP server can easily act as the 
hallway to a good performance experience on those small machines. ;-))
> [snip]
>> Just my 5€ cents
> 5? I thought is was two? Is this inflation?

Things are getting more expensive any day.

And you know, good advice is not cheap. ;-))

Eberhard
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