[Qgis-user] QGIS running on RHEL 5 Thin Client Network

[Alister Hood]

Hi,

QGIS will run fine on machines like that.  I have used it a bit on my machine at home, which has similar specs, although I'm not running a big desktop environment like Gnome or KDE.  Some aspects of the performance are substantially better than on a high spec Windows machine at my work, where the antivirus is a real problem ;)

Of course, higher specs are always better (RAM can be extremely cheap these days and can make a big difference), and if you're going to be using large and complicated datasets you'll want to pay attention to how you manage your data.

Regards,
Alister

> Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2012 16:57:15 -0500 (CDT)
> From: "Proctor, Nathanael" <nproctor at tamu.edu>
> To: Qgis-user at lists.osgeo.org
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> Hello QGIS users group,
> I am looking for details about the capabilities of running QGIS on thin
> clients running on a Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (64 bit currently
> version 5 soon to upgrade to 6).
> Our thin clients have:
> 1.5GHz processor
> > 1GB disk space
> 896MB ram
> 
> My understanding is that the ArcGIS requirements are:
> 2.2GHz processor
> 2.4GB disk space
> 2GB ram
> Which exceeds our thin client capacity.
> 
> Does anyone know the min and recommended requirements for QGIS to run on a
> thin client?
> Final question does anyone have a side-by-side functionality comparison of
> ArcGIS 10 and QGIS 1.8?
> Our company currently is licensed for ESRI ArcGIS 10 but this is using
> Windows Desktops. If QGIS can run on our current RHEL 5 64 Bit thin client
> network we would like to add it to the system.
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Nathanael Proctor
> nproctor at tamu.edu