Wonderful site. Thanks! You may be right. I may be able to use some of the parts I have around with LTSP. I am downloading it as we speak / email. Thanks again! Jack On Fri, 2005-04-01 at 13:50, Jeff Kinz wrote: > On Fri, Apr 01, 2005 at 01:47:03PM -0600, Jack Taffar wrote: > > Looks like the WT3200 WinTerm is Windows only. I am now looking for a > > good X-terminal. I have used HDS Network Solutions and Wyse in the > > past. So I will look there first. Thanks to all for the help so far. > > I will have more questions once I get an actual X-Terminal. > > > > Jack - you may already have the hardware you need for use as > X-terminals/thin clients. > > see http://www.ltsp.org > > This is a "semi-distribution" (you add it to something like fedora) > > This software lets you use multiple PC's as X-terminals from a single > server. (A 1.6 GHz Celeron w/1GB RAM can run 10 clients,YMWV ) > > How it works: > > Using any old PC clone hardware (486 or better) with at least 32MB > of RAM (more is better) you set the PC up to boot program called > "etherboot" or "PXE" . (Can be booted from a floppy, hard drive, cd-rom, > ROM or from any ethernet card with a Boot rom on it) > > Both etherboot and PXE use the network interface to: > A: get a DHCP IP address > B: use tftp to fetch a small, bootable linux kernel over the LAN > > Then - the small kernel boots, load X-Windows, and viola - instant > X-terminal. > > In addition to old PC's there are new boxes designed from scratch to be > thin client X-terminals. Both will work superbly well. > > Where to get ethernet cards with etherboot roms on them: > http://www.disklessworkstations.com > http://www.disklessworkstations.com/cgi-bin/web/scan/fi=products/st=db/co=yes/sf=category/se=10%3A%3A100%20Mbit.html?id=vwFZK5RZ > > A guy who works at that (above) company started and leads the LTSP Open > Source project, Jim McQuillan. > > -- > > http://kinz.org > http://www.fedoranews.org > Jeff Kinz, Emergent Research, Hudson, MA. Jack Taffar Information Systems Comperio (Latin) to find out , discover, gain certain information of. known, undoubted.
