On Sun, 4 Apr 2004, Martin Herweg wrote: > Hedemark, Magnus schrieb: > > Richard Rothwell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > > > The school I teach at in England is using LTSP with > > > considerable success on the curriculum network. We > > > have just been offered some Wyse Terminals WT3720SE's > > > and Compaq Badged 1010. > > > > > > Is it possible to use these as LTSP thin-clients? > > all thin-clients I saw so far were able to boot from PXE/Network > instead of from local Flash - so the did work as LTSP Terminals. > > > > I've looked through the website and can find any information. > > you schould try one and see if you can set it up to always boot from PXE > > > > I struggled with a similar dilemma over the HP t5500 thin clients, which > > also run WinCE. > > I have HP t5000 here - it works fine. > USB Mouse & keyboard was a bit tricky - but works with k12LTSP 4.0 > those k12LTSP enhancements schould go into the nomal LTPS4 packages > because they are useful! > > > I ended up biting the bullet and ordering a couple from our HP vendor. It > > turns out these are normal PC's, just without any moving parts. There was > > a BIOS option to change the boot order to make PXE come ahead of the flash > > disk. They work great with LTSP as well as ClusterKNOPPIX. > > Why I would never by a WinCE Terminal: > > With every Terminal you buy, money is going to Microsoft! > *********************************************************
This is an excellent point, and when we negotiate with companies to buy thin the thin clients that we sell on DisklessWorkstations.Com, we always stress that we do NOT want microsoft making a nickel on the units. It hasn't always been easy, but we have managed to convince HP and several other companies to honor our request by NOT including wince. The good thin is as LTSP gets more widespread, this is getting easier. So, you can be assured that when you buy workstations from us, microsoft is not benefiting in any way. Jim McQuillan [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > I prefer Via mini-ITX or LEX-light booksize PCs > > > Greetings, > Martin Herweg > > ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1470&alloc_id=3638&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
