[plug] OT commercial system

[Kai]

Craig Ringer wrote:

>> I have a client who is looking at setting up an internet cafe with 15 
>> machines.
>>
>> I have recommended Linux based, for obvious reasons, and now I need to 
>> find somebody with the relevant expertise to set-up and maintain the 
>> system.
> 
> 
> If you decide that Linux is the way to go, you may want to consider 
> LTSP. I'm using it here at work, and it works very well indeed. Get a 
> monster server (actually, not-so-monster should be fine, say a P4-3GHz 
> with a gig of RAM... don't know how well it'd multi-task though. I'm 
> using a Dual 2.4GHz Xeon, and the load average tends to sit at "stuff 
> all") and some cheap single board micro-ATX PCs. Nice :-)
> 
> Of course, like everything else you should test and make sure it fits 
> your needs.
> 
> One of my housemates is a Hotmail user, and he finds that Mozilla barely 
> works with Hotmail (surprise, surprise) - this sort of thing may be an 
> issue for a 'net cafe.
> 
> Craig Ringer

Occasionally I check my Hotmail account, I use Mozilla and I don't 
notice any problems with it.