KDE, GNOME and older Power Macs

[David Wadson]

On Monday, October 18, 2004, at 09:46  PM, R. McFarlane wrote:

>
>         The best solution is to setup the fastest Mac you can as the 
> main server and then use the other Macs as clients that connect to 
> that server for their GUI. You will want a 100bT connection to and 
> from each machine for best performance. The advantage to this is that 
> the fastest Mac does all the hard work and the slower Macs are merely 
> thin clients. Look around the LEM Swap List, eBay, craigslist or even 
> your local classifieds for an original iMac. These little guys are 
> great for their performance/price ratio. You don't even need the 
> original CRT to use them, any old Mac monitor will do or using an 
> adapter a regular VGA monitor. I now have 2 original iMacs, one 
> running as a server and the new addition needs a few more parts to 
> work (PS and down converter board).
>
>
> Sincerely,
>
> R. McFarlane
>

I hadn't thought of this approach. I'll also have available a Power Mac 
9600/300, and a couple of G3/266s that I could use as a server. RAM for 
the G3s isn't too expensive and their DLink has a cheap 10/100 ethernet 
card that goes for about $20 CDN locally. Sure, these machines aren't 
the greatest but for about $50 of RAM and a faster NIC, I'm well below 
the cost of a new computer, however cheap they might be nowadays.

Thanks,

Dave