I've used LTSP before - actually wrote a paper about it as a class project. It is rather non-trivial to implement.
What I would suggest is making use of XDMCP. I'm sure there's some way to specify using it on boot. -DMZ On Fri, 2005-11-04 at 11:16 -0500, Angelo Bertolli wrote: > This is the one I would use, but I never had a chance: > http://ltsp.org/ > > Nick Cummings wrote: > > > We have two old machines sitting around the office (both are something > > like Pentium 200 MHz with 64 MB of RAM) and we have a visitor for a > > few months with no computer to use at the moment. I'd like to make > > one of those a useful terminal, probably just something that could run > > X so the user could ssh to another machine and run programs on the > > remote machine. Is anyone aware of a good (preferably easy to setup > > and manage) distro for what I want that will work on that sort of > > hardware? > > > > I'm not sure if this is exactly what people mean when they say "thin > > client", but I thought that was the right direction, so I did some > > looking. I found, for example, ThinStation > > > > http://thinstation.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/ThIndex > > > > which looks like it might work. I'm wondering if any of you have > > tried doing something like this and have suggestions as to a best > > bet. As I said, ease is a pretty big priority here, so a fairly > > ready-made solution is what I'm seeking. > > > > Nick > >
