On 0, Andy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> Suppose I wanted to set up some kiosks for web browsing, solitaire, > > >> etc (just generic users). I can envision three scenarios: > > You know....not too long ago a friend of mine (Windows SysAdmin) > showed me a really cool setup. He had Windows 2000 Server in > one town and in another town he had a conference room full of monitors > and these really little boxes (very little boxes with only monitor, keyboard, > mouse, & power jacks) that he would insert an ATM like card into and > they would show a Windows virtual desktop on all these monitors > connecting over broadband to the main server......I believe he was running > Citrix Metaframe. I have to find out about this hardware. I recall > something like "smart card".
Metaframe still requires a local CPU to handle display stuff. You can't route VGA signals over ATM. > Thin client technology....isn't that what you are talking about? > > I have always wondered.............why can't Linux (especially Debian Linux) > do the same thing Citrix is doing? Citrix essentially does what X does a lot less efficiently. X is pretty much the best thin client technology around. Why would you want metaframe? Tom -- Tom Cook Information Technology Services, The University of Adelaide When you go to the sysadmin's office in the afternoon, and all is deathly quiet, there are three possibilities: 1) Something has gone wrong, and they are all trying to fix it. 2) Something has gone badly wrong, and they have all left the country. 3) Something has gone very badly wrong, and you're missing happy hour. Get my GPG public key: https://pinky.its.adelaide.edu.au/~tkcook/tom.cook-at-adelaide.edu.au
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