Re: Dumb terminals possible with i386 Debian

2002-12-14 Thread nate
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 examp

Re: Dumb terminals possible with i386 Debian

2002-12-14 Thread John Griffiths
>No. I really don't want to be messing >around with old boxes. I want something FAST like this unit so you can just >press the reset button (if anything goes wrong) and get going again. >Boots in about 5 seconds. > http://newsforge.com/newsforge/02/12/04/2346215.shtml?tid=19 sounds exactly like

Re: Dumb terminals possible with i386 Debian

2002-12-14 Thread Andy
> > > > Thin client technologyisn'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 > > > prett

Re: Dumb terminals possible with i386 Debian

2002-10-22 Thread Tom Cook
On 0, Andy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [snip] > 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 b

Re: Dumb terminals possible with i386 Debian

2002-10-22 Thread Tom Cook
On 0, Andy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Metaframe still requires a local CPU to handle display stuff. You > > can't route VGA signals over ATM. > > I did not mean Asynchronous Transfer Mode.. > (not sure if you meant that either...just trying to being clear) > I meant that it was like an A

Re: Dumb terminals possible with i386 Debian

2002-10-22 Thread Kourosh
On Tue, Oct 22, 2002 at 09:04:37AM -0800, Andy wrote: > On Monday 21 October 2002 22:36, Tom Cook wrote: > > Andy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Thin client technologyisn't that what you are talking about? > > > > > > I have always wondered.why can't Linux (especially Debian > > >

RE: Dumb terminals possible with i386 Debian

2002-10-22 Thread Ross Dawson
all 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 i

Re: Dumb terminals possible with i386 Debian

2002-10-22 Thread Russell
Andy wrote: > > 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. http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Thinclient-HOWTO.html http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Diskless-root-NFS-HO

Re: Dumb terminals possible with i386 Debian

2002-10-22 Thread Russell
Andy wrote: > > On Monday 21 October 2002 22:36, Tom Cook wrote: > > Andy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Thin client technologyisn't that what you are talking about? > > > > > > I have always wondered.why can't Linux (especially Debian > > > Linux) do the same thing Citrix is doi

Re: Dumb terminals possible with i386 Debian

2002-10-22 Thread Andy
On Monday 21 October 2002 22:36, Tom Cook wrote: > Andy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Thin client technologyisn'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

Re: Dumb terminals possible with i386 Debian

2002-10-22 Thread Kent West
Andy wrote: Suppose I wanted to set up some kiosks for web browsing, solitaire, etc (just generic users). I can envision three scenarios: Thin client technologyisn't that what you are talking about? No, thin client is easy stuff. What I'm talking about is multiple dumb (but

Re: Dumb terminals possible with i386 Debian

2002-10-21 Thread Andy
> Metaframe still requires a local CPU to handle display stuff. You > can't route VGA signals over ATM. I did not mean Asynchronous Transfer Mode.. (not sure if you meant that either...just trying to being clear) I meant that it was like an ATM card that you stick into this little box that h

Re: Dumb terminals possible with i386 Debian

2002-10-21 Thread Tom Cook
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 knownot too long ago a friend of mine (Windows SysAdmin) > showed me a really cool setup. He had Windows 2

Re: Dumb terminals possible with i386 Debian

2002-10-21 Thread Andy
> >> Suppose I wanted to set up some kiosks for web browsing, solitaire, > >> etc (just generic users). I can envision three scenarios: You knownot 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

Re: Dumb terminals possible with i386 Debian

2002-10-21 Thread Donald R. Spoon
Kent West wrote: Try KDE wrote: Kent West wrote: Suppose I wanted to set up some kiosks for web browsing, solitaire, etc (just generic users). I can envision three scenarios: 3) one server and the rest of the workstations are dumb terminals, having keyboard, mouse, and monitor connected t

Re: Dumb terminals possible with i386 Debian

2002-10-21 Thread Kent West
Try KDE wrote: Kent West wrote: Suppose I wanted to set up some kiosks for web browsing, solitaire, etc (just generic users). I can envision three scenarios: 3) one server and the rest of the workstations are dumb terminals, having keyboard, mouse, and monitor connected to the server via

Re: Dumb terminals possible with i386 Debian

2002-10-21 Thread Try KDE
Kent West wrote: Suppose I wanted to set up some kiosks for web browsing, solitaire, etc (just generic users). I can envision three scenarios: 1) full-blown workstations, each one with their own hard drives and OS setup, etc. 2) one server and the rest of the workstations are thin clients,

Dumb terminals possible with i386 Debian

2002-10-21 Thread Kent West
Suppose I wanted to set up some kiosks for web browsing, solitaire, etc (just generic users). I can envision three scenarios: 1) full-blown workstations, each one with their own hard drives and OS setup, etc. 2) one server and the rest of the workstations are thin clients, having mobo/cpus, ke