On Wed, 18 Jul 2001, Federico Sevilla III wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> In my search for information on setting up X terminals and a primarily
> server-based setup I stumbled upon this article in the current issue of
> the Linux Gazette: <http://www.linuxgazette.org/issue68/swieskowski.html>
many say ltsp is ready for primetime :)
> It's pretty good, especially since the guy uses Debian (hehehe).
> Seriously, though, it's interesting because it is almost diskless (if I
> could burn a proper EEPROM then it WILL be diskless).
eeprom burners are kinda expensive... but it's possible to purchase
EEPROM's from www.disklessworkstations.com for major NIC's.
another solution is to use a floppy bootdisk ... www.rom-o-matic.net
which simulates a bootable NIC
this might be even more cost effective than eeproms ;)
>
> I wonder, though, for those who have "been there, done that" and have the
> time to read the article and help me out: if everything is installed on
> the server, with the client root filesystem in a subdirectory hosted via
> NFS, how are a variety of hardware handled?
everything runs as a process on the server. the clients are just used to
display the desktop.
I'm also planning to migrate our workstations. Right now, I'm starting to
use VNC first before really migrating to dumb terminals ...
-mark
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