Dear all,
I am very much new to Linux Thin Client Concept. But know i am very much interested to create Centos 5 based thin client of 512MB on flash rom.
Can any one guide me to how to start and if you provide any suitable links that will be very much great full.
Regards. Lingu
lingu wrote:
Dear all,
I am very much new to Linux Thin Client Concept. But know i am very much interested to create Centos 5 based thin client of 512MB on flash rom.
Can any one guide me to how to start and if you provide any suitable links that will be very much great full.
Instead of 'rolling your own' based on a heavy desktop/server distribution like Centos, look into something like Thinstation. The work has already been done for you. If you want to do it as an exercise then by all means continue. Look into the thin client options and the rescue disk options already available.
Kevin Thorpe wrote:
lingu wrote:
Dear all,
I am very much new to Linux Thin Client Concept. But know i am very much interested to create Centos 5 based thin client of 512MB on flash rom.
Can any one guide me to how to start and if you provide any suitable links that will be very much great full.
Instead of 'rolling your own' based on a heavy desktop/server distribution like Centos, look into something like Thinstation. The work has already been done for you. If you want to do it as an exercise then by all means continue. Look into the thin client options and the rescue disk options already available.
You might also look at the k12ltsp distribution which has fedora and Centos spins with LTSP and some other extra packages included to network-boot thin clients. Even if you don't network boot, it is handy to have everything else set up on the server for remote thin client use.
http://k12ltsp.org/mediawiki/index.php/Main_Page The EL5 version would be the current Centos based copy. Some work is in progress to turn this into installable packages for the next fedora release, but for now it is hard to beat installing this distro for something that works out of the box.
On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 8:44 AM, Les Mikesell lesmikesell@gmail.com wrote:
Kevin Thorpe wrote:
lingu wrote:
Dear all,
I am very much new to Linux Thin Client Concept. But know i am very much interested to create Centos 5 based thin client of 512MB on flash rom.
Can any one guide me to how to start and if you provide any suitable links that will be very much great full.
Instead of 'rolling your own' based on a heavy desktop/server distribution like Centos, look into something like Thinstation. The work has already been done for you. If you want to do it as an exercise then by all means continue. Look into the thin client options and the rescue disk options already available.
You might also look at the k12ltsp distribution which has fedora and Centos spins with LTSP and some other extra packages included to network-boot thin clients. Even if you don't network boot, it is handy to have everything else set up on the server for remote thin client use.
http://k12ltsp.org/mediawiki/index.php/Main_Page The EL5 version would be the current Centos based copy. Some work is in progress to turn this into installable packages for the next fedora release, but for now it is hard to beat installing this distro for something that works out of the box.
-- Les Mikesell lesmikesell@gmail.com
CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Another option is the xrdp project. Using rdestkop on your thin client to connect to a CentOS server with multiple simultaneous XWindows.
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