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<p class=MsoNormal>Hello,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>I am considering deploying thin clients in a corporate
environment and I decided to evaluate K12Linux as a starting point. I am very
impressed with what it does with regard to PXE booting thin clients, however I
do have a few questions about how the thin clients can be customized.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>The default use case for K12Linux is that the thin clients allow
users to log in to the K12Linux server itself and run apps from there. However,
we have a situation where we already have other Linux boxes and Windows
machines we would want the thin clients to access. I would envision it as being
the case that once the thin client booted up, it would present the user with a
list of Linux machines to connect to using XDMCP, or Windows machines to
connect to using Remote Desktop or VNC. Users would not actually run software
on the K12Linux server after boot-up.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>So, my questions are 1) what would it take to customize K12Linux
to operate in this manner, 2) would I be better starting with a base FC 10
install and attempting to configure LTSP myself on it from scratch, Or 3) are
there other LTSP distributions which might be better suited for this purpose?<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>If there aren’t any easy answers to this question, any
reference, documentation or howto’s on how to customize/configure the
boot image which K12Linux sends to the PXE clients would be appreciated! Thanks!<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>-- Marcio<o:p></o:p></p>
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