azeem ahmad wrote:
hi list
i have a FC6 box which has 1 GB RAM and two 1 GHz XEON Processors. i
want to give a remote desktop to about 40 clients simaltaneously.
but notice that its not like vnc which shares a single desktop, rather i
want to give every user which logs in a new personal desktop which is
not shared with other users. (may be just like windows terminal services)
is there any such software which can be used for this purpose?
can the above mentioned HArdware support about 40 simal;taneous user
connections???
Checkout the LTSP linux terminal server project. http://www.ltsp.org/
or for the educational slant: http://www.k12ltsp.org/
People have been doing what you want on much older hardware for many
years. Even nicer is the network pxeboot/tftp loading and running on a
machine without having to perform an install on the remote machine.
I think it would depend a bit on the types of applications the users
will be using {eg scientific calculations might mean only a few people
could be useful at once, whereas text or spreadsheet activity might work
fine for that number of users}. From memory, good network connectivity
is essential {dual gigabit might be nice}.
DaveT.
