On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 8:44 AM, Les Mikesell <lesmikesell at 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 at gmail.com > > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at 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. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20080911/83d5b0b9/attachment-0005.html>