Guys, I think I can help with some of the questions raised in relation to the jackPC. I had a quick look at the website and the CPU is a AMD Au1550 which is a SOC based on the MIPS32™ instruction set.
The biggest problem would be developing a Linux or NetBSD kernel that is compatible with their hardware, the other big challenge is the Video driver support, putting the rest of the MIPS LTSP type filesytem together would be easy. > It would be a chunk of work but creating an ARM LTSP should be > quite doable and as for no PXE it is quite possible to put the > ltsp kernel on flash and boot it from there. We have had to do > this to support wireless PCI cards I put together something similar for ARM, about six months ago... Our kernel resides in flash memory and the filesystem is mounted via NFS on bootup. (same as LTSP) We can also mount a filesystem from Compact flash, SD/MMC or USB key :) I have been running a ARM smart thin client for around six months now, I use it everyday using NoMachine's NXclient to access my desktop running on a server about 100KM from here. In fact I am using it now to compose this reply, I could never go back to the old way of doing things. I love the idea that no matter where I am in the World my desktop is only a Internet connection away... John -- "It said Windows 95/98/NT/XP/2000 or better, so I installed Linux" ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Tame your development challenges with Apache's Geronimo App Server. Download it for free - -and be entered to win a 42" plasma tv or your very own Sony(tm)PSP. Click here to play: http://sourceforge.net/geronimo.php _____________________________________________________________________ Ltsp-discuss mailing list. To un-subscribe, or change prefs, goto: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ltsp-discuss For additional LTSP help, try #ltsp channel on irc.freenode.net
