At 12:43 PM 04/23/2001 -0500, you wrote: >I run our entire office of 35+ users off a 330Mhz sparc/512MB with >Solaris and a dual 800 Mhz pentium III/512MB with Linux. We run Autocad, >StarOffice, Netscape, and an inventory control/sales analysis/accounting >package which is a mix of gnome / text applications (the text apps are >being ported to gnome when I have the odd moment free from reading this >list). > >I do about 2 hours of admin / week, and we haven't had any downtime since >we switched to Linux (no nines, just a one and zero's...). > >We bought 35 neoware X-Terminals in 1994 for use with SCO Unix. We have had >0 terminal failures in a little more than 6 years of continuous use. They >run gnome >and autocad perfectly, neither of which existed when the terminals were built. Are these terminals ethernet or serial-based? I've been thinking about this (an ethernet-based solution, using some older 486 and low-end Pentium PCs with no hard drives as "thin clients") for a while myself, for my home, but never really researched the idea -- I knew it was possible, just not exactly how. Dave Sherman SoftServ Business Systems, Inc. "Quid quid latine dictum sit, webmaster at ssbs.com altum viditur." (763) 569-9839