[TriLUG] Linux thin client

[Ron Kelley via TriLUG]

Thanks for the info.  I recently upgraded an old Atom D510 system and was looking for ways to repurpose the motherboard as a thin client workstation (working out on the deck).  I have a rather beefy ESXi server (20 cores, 64G RAM) and wanted to try out various Linux desktop distro (Elementary OS, Ubuntu, etc) using a thin client device.







> On May 31, 2017, at 9:14 AM, John Vaughters via TriLUG <trilug at trilug.org> wrote:
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> I played around with LTSP and liked it very much. It really depends with what you want to do to guide which direction you should go. Are you looking for full production with reliable hardware? or is this an education environment? Not really asking, just pointing out that depending on your needs you may make different choices. Thin clients should work fine for LTSP. Cost and reliability go down greatly as you scale up. A beefy server with alot of thin clients would probably be most cost effective if you include maintenance and energy costs. The other option of using old hardware tends to be costly if they are running 24/7 and maintenance will go up as well. However, for a 12 hour on time and willing repair people that education environments tend to have, it may be a good choice, especially if you can get used donated hardware. You should be able to find several solutions for thin clients running a light linux to use for the end user. For testing you could start with an RPi or use it exclusively. Again, depending on how much reliability you are looking for.
> John Vaughters
> On Wednesday, May 31, 2017, 7:14:34 AM EDT, Ron Kelley via TriLUG <trilug at trilug.org> wrote:Just needed a jumping off point for now.  Thanks for the reply!
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>> On May 31, 2017, at 12:33 AM, John Ostrander <john at crackroot.org> wrote:
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>> I've done a couple projects using LTSP, but I always use fat clients. With that hardware I'd guess that's what you want anyway. Do you have more specific questions or are you just looking for a jumping off point?
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