[wplug] looking for old computers

Eric C. Cooper ecc at cmu.edu
Thu Dec 5 10:23:00 EST 2002


On Thu, Dec 05, 2002 at 09:49:53AM -0500, Nick Iglehart wrote:
> If you use anything slower than a 233 or so I would recommend
> installing blackbox or some other lightweight window manager.  Gnome
> and KDE just don't have much oomph on a 486.

The LTSP approach that the OP plans on deploying uses the older
machines as pure X Terminals.  The window managers, desktop
environments, and applications all run on servers with more
horsepower.

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Eric C. Cooper          e c c @ c m u . e d u



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