[TriLUG] Xubuntu for Thin Clients
Owen Berry
oberry at trilug.org
Fri Sep 22 12:54:24 EDT 2006
As someone who's never setup or even used LTSP before I'm just going to
take a shot in the dark on this one ... aren't they saying that Xubuntu
is a good client to be pulled from the central server and executed on
the client because it's relatively lightweight.
Owen
On Thu, Sep 21, 2006 at 10:47:45PM -0400, James McDermott wrote:
> Hello All,
>
> We are starting to build a small thin-client demo network for a
> classroom environment.
>
> The recommended requirements for the thin-client computer is a 300 MHz
> P2 with 64 MB RAM and a 4MB display card. The thin-client computer can
> run with no hard drive on the machine.
>
> Xubuntu is advertised as a good OS for thin-clients?
>
> I am wondering why we should have an OS installed on our thin-clients? I
> speculate that maybe this gives us the ability to reboot the thin-client
> machines into a Xubuntu session if the server was down?
>
> If the server is down, will the thin-client try to boot to the network
> (fail) and then automatically boot from the hard drive (assuming the
> correct boot order is set in BIOS)?
>
> Does PXE enabled NIC booting or booting using a etherboot floppy require
> that the machine have an installed OS?
>
> Our server will be a P4 running Edubuntu.
>
> If you have any thoughts about why we should install an OS like Xubuntu
> in the P2 thin-clients, please advise.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Jim McDermott
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