would it be possible to use the thinclient as a sort of a multimedia box, i explain. i've got a friend who runs an hotel with educational facilities ( i didn't find the english term ). he would like to install a computer ( thinclient ) in every room, which must be able to play mpeg files, music cd's , surf on the web, do some office stuff, etc.Yep, sound works through nasd, at least with mpg123, take a look a the contrib pages (www.ltsp.org). Couldn't get xmms working, there is a nasd plugin, but it didn't worked (for me), albeit I didn't spend much time with it.
in my previous ltsp project, i used these epia-m motherboards, which are well equiped for multimedia-stuff ( mpeg decoder, sound on board, etc ). i could set up an ltsp-server and equip every room with an epiam box, with speakers, cd-reader, etc.
maybe this is overkill for thinclients ? anybody got some experience in this domain
If your DC are thick enough to run those apps local, it should be even easier and you don't need to take a look if they are network aware.
There's a ltsp sound package you need to install first.
Good luck
Michael
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