Yes The Linux terminal server project has done this http://www.ltsp.org/
If you wanted the cheap option you could use 2nd hand PC's for the X clients or go out and buy 50-100 low end PC's that are suitably compatible with Linux/X. The clients can be pretty much anything over a 486/8M RAM. You can make them floppy boot or netboot making a hard drive redundant. That way the client consists of low-end Mobo/CPU, PSU, Graphics card and NIC (ie Diskless workstation). Probably one of those all-in one Mobo's would do nicely. With the lowend clients you can put some grunt into the server since it has to run 100 clients all on the one Box. Consider dual CPU. Lots of RAM and SCSI/RAID for ultimate performance Oh and LTSP have .debs but I've never tried them (used rpms on RH with great success a couple of years ago) For LTSP the first place I'd go is the Install guide. Read the into and see if it whet's your appetite. Also google on Linux Kiosk. Xterminal HOWTO etc. HTH Ross -----Original Message----- From: Andy [mailto:list@;firman.us] Sent: Wednesday, October 23, 2002 3:05 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Dumb terminals possible with i386 Debian 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? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
