We have couple of Via Epia EX boards that I have fairly satisfied with. They are: - quiet, fanless and very small - reasonably priced - DVI output for sharp picture - with the binary video driver from Via also superior X performance Ondrej
Chris Roberts wrote: > On Wednesday 18 Jun 2008, Sean Carte wrote: > >> Does anybody have recommendations regarding thin client hardware for >> the clients? >> >> I see HP offer a few, including the NeoWare range. Has anybody used >> these with LTSP? >> > > We have a couple of HP t5700 series machines, which PXE boot straight into > LTSP without fuss. These are the XPe type machines, presumably buying the > Linux embedded versions makes more sense (at least MS isn't benefitting!). > > We have used Wyse 9235LEs which work fine, but are very slow. > > But I'm not sure that you need "thin client hardware" - these tend to have > flash memory and an O/S, neither of which you need with LTSP. So consider > buying a low-power barebones PC (perhaps a Via or Epia, preferably fanless). > The key thing is that they must PXE boot, which almost all modern hardware > does. > > For example I've bought a number of MSI Axis 700 Lite PCs, these are small > form factor and have everything you need except RAM (and possibly an optical > drive), both of which can be fitted in seconds. They work in both 4.2 and 5 > without a problem, and can be bought for around £100 sterling ($200) - > considerably cheaper than comparable thin client hardware. And if, in the > future, you move away from LTSP, you can add a hard drive and install the O/S > of your choice...! > > I've also built a couple of PCs and I was particularly pleased with the tiny > Cubid 3688 case with an Epia m/b and dvd-rom, which cost about £170 ($340) > but is absolutely gorgeous and took less than an hour to put together (you > could probably halve that if you were doing a number of them). > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It's the best place to buy or sell services for just about anything Open Source. http://sourceforge.net/services/buy/index.php _____________________________________________________________________ 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
