Andy wrote: > > On Monday 21 October 2002 22:36, Tom Cook wrote: > > Andy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > 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? > > I don't want Metaframe. I want to know if the same thing can be done > with Linux (especially Debian). > What he had was Win2000 with Citrix serving 20 thin client terminals in a town > 300 miles away over broadband. These little terminals are manufactured in > Taiwan and I can't find the company. They had a little slot in which to > stick a little ATM like flash card in order to logon. No moving parts at all > in this little unit. You simply plug in a keyboard, monitor, mouse, power, > and ethernet, then your little flash card, and you get a Windows screen > in which to run all of the Office applications, email and web, from the main > windows server in the other town. > > Thin client boxes are attractive since one does not have to deal with > old hardware, failing memory, flaky video cards, hard drives, etc.... > > I want to build a Debian server and be able to serve 50-100 thin clients over > a 100Mbps LAN. I can build the server but I am at a loss on how to get a > thin client running this way. > > Anyone doing this with Debian?
I might have missed something in a previous post, but why not just X ? The thin-client PCs need enough HDD space to hold an X server and not much else. The actual applications (X clients) run on the central PC. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
