Thin Clients

[Ed K.]

On Tue, 29 Jun 2004, Phil Schaffner wrote:
> On Tue, 2004-06-29 at 15:51 -0700, Mario Casamalhuapa wrote:
>> I have a situation and I need some advice. We have some old dumb
>> terminals, that connect to a Unix server. The dumb terminals are being
>> replaced by PCs with Fedora. How can I make fedora log in to this server
>> and mimic this dumb terminal. All I need is a prompt to the server. And
>> if the PC is powered on and off it should always return to this prompt,
>> nothing else.
>
> Fedora seems like overkill for this purpose.  A google on 'linux "thin
> client"' seems to show quite a few possibilities.
>

I agree, but you can also look at changing the /etc/inittab to run minicom 
(or telnet) in a console.

ed

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