[olug] OT: Recommendations of Thin Clients

[Rob Townley]

On Thu, Nov 5, 2009 at 5:14 AM, Douglas Bertelsen
<douglas.bertelsen at gmail.com> wrote:
> Cheyenne,
>
>    I have a class setup of old MacBook (circa Pismo) thin clients and
> can recommend the following:
>
> 1.) Stick with i386 or x64 processors
> 2.) Check graphics compatibility/drivers before you buy a bunch
> (particularly acceleration if you need it
> 3.) I've been looking into http://disklessworkstations.com/ for an
> updated set (the owner works with the LTSP project)
>
>   That being said, even an old PIII can serve as a good testbed.  I
> also use a Compaq2110 as a bit beefier machine (that doesn't have the
> issues of cross-architecture image creation).  If you do try option
> #3, let me know how it works out.  I haven't gotten around to asking
> them for a loaner to try out yet.
>
>   BTW, just a quick introduction.  I've been using Linux since Fedora
> 2 was releases.  Tried as early as 98, but hardware was too much of an
> issue to deal with at that time.  I now have a dual-tuner Fedora 11
> based HTPC, and the aforementioned LTSP setup with 24 PPC clients on
> an x64 server.  That system is Ubuntu-based and I just ran into issues
> with Karmic and netbooting a too-large kernel with yaboot.  Maybe that
> will get fixed this weekend.

Diskless Remote Boot Linux / drbl /  CloneZilla Server on 200910
crashes as well, but the maintainer is actively patching in his
unstable repo.

>
> Doug Bertelsen
>
> On Thu, Nov 5, 2009 at 12:11 AM, Cheyenne Deal <deal.cheyenne at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Does anyone have a recommendation of thin clients? All I am looking for
>> one to do is for to start a remote desktop session with a box to use it.
>> Any ideas?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Cheyenne
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