On Thu, 24 Aug 2006 09:34:27 +0200
Adrian Snyman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> What thin clients are you using ? out of curiosity ....
> I have 3 kids who all run their own machines ATM ... want to put them
> on thin clients too ... but I want to run wireless ..
They are all older desktop machines, circa Win9x.
* One is an old eMachine (My wife & my first computer we bought
together)
with 500MHz and 192MB ram and a 4 MB Graphic Card
* One is an old IBM Aptiva (My father-in-laws 1st ever computer)
with ~300MHz, 192MB ram and 4 MB Graphic Card
* One is a "white box" (1st computer I put together by hand)
with 133MHz, 64MB ram and 2 MB Graphic Card
* One Thinkpad 380ED (1st laptop I owned)
with ~200MHz, 64MB ram and 1.25 MB Graphic Card
I noted all the "first" stuff just to illustrate the age and "price" of
these machines. The best part of LTSP (for me) has been the fact that:
1) All the family gets a computer (no fighting)
2) They can sit down at any of them (no "this is MY computer")
3) No major cost. Just normal upgrade cycle.
Only the thinkpad is not a true "thin client". the thinkpad has a
minimal Debian Stable installed so to get the PCMCIA up and running. It
mounts the /home/ from my LTSP server, and the X server is run with
--query $LTSP_SERVER. (NOTE: the battery has long ago died, so this is
really just a "portal desktop machine" in our house)
Wireless is OK, but not ideal. I would not want to do anything major on
the thinkpad, but doing email, basic internet, abiword, etc. all works
well.
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