Cron/Xwindows
Jonathan Hutchins
hutchins at tarcanfel.org
Fri Oct 24 16:15:52 CDT 2003
Just to pick one point here:
On Friday 24 October 2003 10:15 am, Daniel Matthis wrote:
> ... look at what some of the universities are doing to increase
> terminal (computer) access by using Linux for the workstations instead
> of spending $200+ per terminal for Windows.
Ok, you're talking licenses here, right? The hardware that an XWindows
display requires is either more limited production than a desktop PC, and
therefore more expensive, or if PC based is at the very least the equivalent
of a basic Windows workstation. Yes, you eliminate the hard drive. You
still need most of the RAM, most of the processor, and a good video card.
As an example, and an example of the inneficiency of XWindows, I recently
upgraded my system from a 500MHz, 312M system with a 16M video card to a
1200MHz, 512M and Radeon 8000. Performance of KDE on the new hardware is
roughly equivalent to performance of Windows95 on the old - roughly a 3x
hardware factor.
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