> The other name for thin > client is dumb terminal. That means you get a keyboard; a screen, a > network connection, and nothing else. No memory; no hard drive, no > floppies no speakers, no connection for refreshable braille display, and > no way to do screen magnification without additional hardware.
Not exactly. You need memory, you can have a floppy drive, you can have speakers. There is no need for a physical hard drive because everything lives in RAM. If you need extra swap space nbd is available. Thin Clients aren't exactly "dumb terminals", they have become much smarter. I have not worked with braille displays or screen magnification so I cannot speak to that. > I know > about this stuff because a system that will be expanding in the coming > years uses citrix Luckily Linux thin clients aren't Citrix :-) For what it is worth, I have been playing with getting text to speech to work in our thin client environment with no luck (Edubuntu Feisty). So I tried to enable it on my stand alone Gutsy Desktop, still no luck (Edubuntu Gutsy). However I cannot be certain that I am trying to set this up correctly. There doesn't seem to be any step by step documentation for this. I have read the manuals but they seem vague. I simply want to be able to take and Edubuntu Desktop and enable text to speech for OpenOffice and Firefox mainly. I guess I did have it working temporarily in Gutsy, but they my machine slowed down and started freezing. So maybe there are still some bugs that need working out. I haven't had the time to trouble shoot any further. Jim -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by the Cotter Technology Department, and is believed to be clean. -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility
