> On Fri, 2004-02-20 at 10:02, Brian Payst wrote: > Symbio-technologies (www.thesymbiont.com) has half a dozen different > thin clients from about $200 to $300. I have one of the low end models > that does well, and looks good to boot. >
The thin clients on their homepage are VIA EPIA 500 or 5000 model motherboards in a case. If you have the PC100/PC133 RAM laying around, you can get these boards for $100 and a case for as little as $47. You don't need anything else since they support PXE boot natively. If you want a better looking case then you can plan on spending more money or getting the School of Art geeked up about making cases for these devices. The requirements for such a contest would be pretty trivial considering all you need is a square hole in the back and passive ventilation (holes?). These boards do not require fans. That said, I have two of these boards and have not been able to test them as LTSP clients (one is my mail / web server). Their graphics capabilities are less than stellar, but very likely an acceptable performance for LTSP. 1024 x 768 x 24-bit color is reasonable but at 1280x1024 the images were blurry. Don't know if that's the computer or the monitor. I have to admit that the Jammin make much smaller and better looking terminals than any of these options, but it depends on what you need. ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net is sponsored by: Speed Start Your Linux Apps Now. Build and deploy apps & Web services for Linux with a free DVD software kit from IBM. Click Now! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1356&alloc_id=3438&op=click _____________________________________________________________________ Ltsp-discuss mailing list. To un-subscribe, or change prefs, goto: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ltsp-discuss For additional LTSP help, try #ltsp channel on irc.freenode.net
