We have two old machines sitting around the office (both are something
like Pentium 200 MHz with 64 MB of RAM) and we have a visitor for a few
months with no computer to use at the moment. I'd like to make one of
those a useful terminal, probably just something that could run X so the
user could ssh to another machine and run programs on the remote machine.
Is anyone aware of a good (preferably easy to setup and manage) distro for
what I want that will work on that sort of hardware?
I'm not sure if this is exactly what people mean when they say
"thin client", but I thought that was the right direction, so I did some
looking. I found, for example, ThinStation
http://thinstation.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/ThIndex
which looks like it might work. I'm wondering if any of you have tried
doing something like this and have suggestions as to a best bet. As I
said, ease is a pretty big priority here, so a fairly ready-made solution
is what I'm seeking.
Nick
