On Wed, Dec 17, 2003 at 04:52:45PM -0500, Andrew Malcolmson wrote:

On Tue, 16 Dec 2003 15:56:42 -0500, William Park wrote:

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I am interested in thin client aspect. I'm Slackware guy, but there shouldn't be too much of difference with Debian, as long as XFree86 and Kernel are uptodate.

Yeah, the Linux Terminal Server project is the popular thing for this.

Actually, LTSP, Etherboot, Netboot, Rom-a-matic, and friends are pretty much obsolete now. With PXE support (ie. 3c905), you can boot and mount NFS root; after that, the client is looking at "normal" root tree as it would from local harddisk.

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- How many PCs do you have for Linux X-terminal? If you don't have enough, then multiple cpu-less stations (ie. monitor/keyboard/mouse) can be set up.

10 or so. There's been a recent donation of low-end P1, 32M machines, perfect for this.

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