[NTLUG:Discuss] ThinClient Success wiht Linux?

[Fred Hensley]

Hello Everyone,

Recall several weeks (or maybe months) ago there was a deal to purchase some
used thin clients on the cheap from a local DFW electronics store.  Several
NTLUG'ers (including myself) went over and purchased one or more.

The interesting part was that these workstations required a firmware upgrade
from IBM in order to load Linux.  Was anyone who purchased one successful in
finding/obtaining this firmware upgrade?  Was anyone able to get Linux up
and running on one?

>From my perspective, I was hoping to utilize these for an inexpensive
Firewall using IPCOP and a usb-based Ethernet port for the second network
connection.

Best to everyone, and Merry Christmas!

-Fred-



-----Original Message-----
From: discuss-bounces at ntlug.org [mailto:discuss-bounces at ntlug.org] On Behalf
Of Kermit Jones
Sent: Wednesday, December 22, 2004 2:57 AM
To: NTLUG Discussion List
Subject: Re: [NTLUG:Discuss] thin clients, are they practical
andsatisfactory?

Ralph,

In a word... yes.  I set up a school with 15 clients on an Athlon 1800+ 
and ~800MB RAM.  Single IDE 120GB HDD.  Each client is about 233MHz with 
64MB RAM, no hard drive and a floppy disk to initially boot (using 
rom-o-matic.com).  Boot time is about 5-10 secs on each client.  Kids 
use it for OpenOffice, GIMP, etc. on KDE.  Most of them want to know why 
its faster than their machines at home.

I'd be happy to discuss more offline.  Just use my personal email -  
kermit  AT freelifeministries DOT org

KJ

Ralph Green, Jr wrote:

>Howdy,
>  I read your whole message and you did not comment on the central issue
>here.  What do you think of this kind of setup?  Do you think the users
>have a satisfactory user experience from this kind of setup?
>Good day,
>Ralph
>
>p.s., If you are going to be at the meeting this weekend, please came a
>little early and join us in the LIP room.  Experience from someone who
>has implemented these would be appreciated.
>
>On Wed, 2004-09-15 at 14:05, Rob Apodaca wrote:
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>>Yes. I implemented LTSP at my work about 3-4 years ago. There are
>>currently about 30 workstations (almost 50 at one time) and 1 server.
>>Applications are email, web, word proc, spreadsheet, telnet.
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