Questions/Concerns about VNC

[Justin Maurer]

	I am going to co-admin some machines at school next year. Here is
what we plan to happen (school starts next tuesday), as it stands now:

	- We have a P200MMX running Debian Linux with 128M of ram, and a
		12gb disk and a t1 connection to the net, and a 10bT
		connection to the local net

	- the part of the local net relevant here is a bunch of macintosh
		machines that will be used solely as dumb terminals to
		telnet into the linux machine.

	However, I got a crazy idea today:

	- Run 25-27 (approx. number of clients) Xvnc servers and have the
		macs run the vnc viewer for macintosh (which i just
		learned exists) to connect to the server.

	Buuut:

	* I heard VNC was *extremely* slow - will 10bT be enough for ~26
		clients? Could a p200 handle the load?

	* RAM. Xnvc (2mb, as i see it here) + text editor + window manager
		+  gnu c++ compiler + GNOME (i think gnome might only be
		for the 7 post a.p students, not sure) = a LOT of ram 128
		probably couldn't handle it. i wonder if 256 could.

	* What about the Mac vncclient?

am i being unrealistic?
any other thoughts?

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