On Sun 26 Mar 2017 at 12:23:04 -0400, Dan Ritter wrote: > On Sun, Mar 26, 2017 at 04:22:47PM +0100, David wrote: > > > It looks like a 256MB RAM 400 MHz Pentium. Performance will be > > > absolutely terrible compared to a $200 Chromebook converted over > > > to Linux. > > > > > > That said, there's nothing preventing you from trying. Set up a > > > standard PXE netboot and look for problems. > > > > > > -dsr- > > Thank you for the replies. > > > > Brian, the URL's give useful information. > > > > Dan, I'm not looking for desktop performance, I need a small and > > economical to run 'box' where I need to leave a machine running 24 > > hours a day. > > > > I currently have 4 Raspberry Pi's, 2 as DNS servers and 2 as Syslog > > servers, I plan to try a thin client for this type of application. > > I don't see why you wouldn't use another Raspberry for this, > given their reasonable power draw and the fact that you already > have experience with them.
Although a Raspberry Pi is not particularly expensive, the 15 GBP I paid for a brand new thin client was an attraction. It acts as a print server. Do you want a list of printer manufacturers who do not support Linux on the ARM architecture? -- Brian.