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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Tom Potts wrote: > On Wednesday 25 June 2008 07:06, tom wrote: > I thought the idea was, essentially, to use the computational power of the > 'Terminals' (in LTSP) as part of the server. LTSP clients can be set up as Thin (X or Similar Protcol served over network only) Medium (where X terminal & some applications are run locally but essentially most programs are hosted on the Server) or even as thick clients (whereby the server just acts as a central repository for resources). However the original LTSP concept is one BIG server with lots of little computers networked providing user access points to the BIG server. Think the good old bad old days of the Mainframe. The clients where not supposed to provide any computational power (beyond providing screen rendering and keyboard / mouse capture and networking). Over time the LTSP concept has become very blurred of course ...... Ironically the X-terminal protocol came about because (back then) the X-terminal was likely to be the most expensive piece of kit in the machine room, since graphical screens and the processing necessary was very expensive and very specialist (ie build it yourself) kit. So the idea was that the X-terminal could be pointed at any one of a number of machines when graphical output was necessary. In effect this was one graphical terminal shared between many servers. Now LTSP is about one server shared by many graphical terminals ...... Occasionally history likes to turn things on their head ....... Tom. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkhintAACgkQBX2gJWUv0itFsgCggOJh5Jz/FryO8WTgbuohKbQA aBUAn3fd2zIKLANTxaqtGMrKuwpVqo21 =li3R -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html