Andy said: > People have mentioned in this thread to just go get some old 486 and > Pentium boxes and make them be dumb terminals. No. I really don't want > to be messing around with old boxes. I want something FAST like this unit
your going to pay a large premium for such a product. An example I can think of though is the ThinkNIC, CDROM based, 4MB flash, 64MB ram, includes a citrix client(never used the citrix). my grandparents have one, I spent a couple days hacking up the software to include a bunch more stuff including SSH server/client, VNC client/server, opera, a buncha games, abiword etc. All runs from the CDROM. I also upgraded the ram to 128MB. There is no "shutdown" you just turn it off when your finished. I was shocked on how fast it is, very impressed. I never tried it with 64MB, when I got it, first thing I did was upgrade to 128MB. they run I think $245 from www.thinknic.com (no monitor). It appears to be based on Debian 2.1, or debian 2.2? I forget, whichever was based on glibc 2.1. So I couldn't get any modern build of mozilla on it(not compadible with glibc 2.1). Opera worked good though as does netscape 4. a list of similar products is available at: http://www.linuxdevices.com/articles/AT2016997232.html having recently worked at a thin client software company(a compeditor to citrix for win32, and to some extent unix, they are the fastest thin client software for unix/linux available). the market for such devices is minimal, which is why I think they aren't very common. depending on where you work and what the goal is you could save a ton of cash by rolling your own stuff. I'm not saying take old pieces of shit computers I'm sayin build a buncha micro ITX systems(or order them pre built). Take an "embedded" linux CDROM based distro(such as what the ThinkNIC uses, its freely downloadable in ISO format), configure it to use the hardware that you choose ..and go with it. You could reduce costs more by going fully netboot and not use cdroms at all. good luck nate -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
