On Fri, 2 Mar 2007, Dave Fenwick wrote:
> I just read some specs for that class of thin clients from NeoWare
> (the Capio 600 series). You're going to be very lucky to do anything
> with LTSP on those boxes. It doesn't look like they'll PXE boot, they
> have very little memory, and they use a compact flash for the little
> storage they have (32MB?) Looks like they're running WinCE on the box
> and they're pretty much designed to do RDP, ICA, or some type of VNC
> client.
>
> If the xrdp project ever gets a head of steam, you could potentially
> be able to use them to connect to sessions on your Linux servers.
> That's probably a ways out though. You'll also not really be using
> LTSP at that point.
How about e.g. the e370 or e90? They definitely will run linux, and
neoware sells them preconfigured to flash boot a what looks like a
standard desktop, but if they'll PXE boot (something that I cannot tell
from their not too technical description) one could presumably (re)image
them with LTSP.
They're pretty boxes and not too expensive, and one can get them with a
touchscreen. As usual running them as WinXX clients with Office and
some remote management capability will double their cost per unit in
most environments for software alone (presuming that they are fat enough
to RUN Office, which is a bit of a pig, or e.g. Outlook which is more of
one) but a resident Lin environment with a remote mounted NFS /usr
should give them access to pretty much the entire suite of Linux
software in a fat installation, even though they may not be able to run
all of it at any given time due to memory limitations.
If they won't do this, I guess we can fall back on OTC hardware and
build our own thin client, or by a minimally thick client and run it
thin. Or I could ask this list -- what professional-class neoware-like
thin hardware (where I'd like the actual chassis to be minimal in
footprint, smaller than a minitower and ideally small enough to hang
behind the monitor or act as its pedestal) do people use in production
environments? Stuff one can get 3 year service on, can run rdesktop and
Win or just plain PXE boot Lin?
rgb
>
> On 3/1/07, Frank Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> I have a LTSP setup that's working fine using old PC's and floppy boot disks
>> for terminals. I have just acquired a few Neoware Capio 616 terminals and
>> would like to use them instead of the old beater boxes that I have up and
>> running now.
>>
>> I crank up the Neoware terminals and see a few screens of "Neoware" and then
>> get dumped into what I think is a Windows-something screen or state that I
>> can't
>> do much with, other than move the mouse around a bit and accomplish very
>> little.
>>
>> I have never had any dealings with a "real" terminal before. What do I need
>> to
>> do to these things to get them to work on my LTSP setup?
>>
>> --
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