Processors looking for a good home

Lennart Sorensen lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys at public.gmane.org
Mon Sep 17 17:17:25 UTC 2007


On Mon, Sep 17, 2007 at 01:11:00PM -0400, Robert Brockway wrote:
> I've streamed by TV tuner card to the thin client over two cheap 100MB/s 
> switches.  Worked as well as the console.  Then I sent it over ssh and it 
> still worked nearly as well as the console of the server (400MHz Epia cpu 
> on the thin client).
> 
> I've also played GLTron to a thin client which was actually a Pentium-266 
> with 64MB of ram (with some fancy features off, but that is a function of 
> the vid card on the thin client).  I've also played other high intensity 
> games to a thin client.
> 
> So while the thin client may constrain some graphically intensive apps I'm 
> yet to run across them.  Some people have suggested that CAD may not work 
> well to a thin client but I've never tried this.

I remember netscape on 10Mbit (shared with 30 other x terminals).

Things like GLX help a lot.  Is there a remote protocol for compressed
video since that always seemed to be one of the worst things.

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