dumb terminals and Red Hat Fedora Linux 2 (Thanks for the Help!)

[Jack Taffar]

Wonderful site.  Thanks!
You may be right.  I may be able to use some of the parts I have around
with LTSP.  I am downloading it as we speak / email.

Thanks again!

Jack



On Fri, 2005-04-01 at 13:50, Jeff Kinz wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 01, 2005 at 01:47:03PM -0600, Jack Taffar wrote:
> > Looks like the WT3200 WinTerm is Windows only.  I am now looking for a
> > good X-terminal.  I have used HDS Network Solutions and Wyse in the
> > past.  So I will look there first.  Thanks to all for the help so far. 
> > I will have more questions once I get an actual X-Terminal.
> > 
> 
> Jack - you may already have the hardware you need for use as
> X-terminals/thin clients.
> 
> see http://www.ltsp.org
> 
> This is a "semi-distribution"  (you add it to something like fedora)
> 
> This software lets you use multiple PC's as X-terminals from a single
> server.  (A 1.6 GHz Celeron w/1GB RAM can run 10 clients,YMWV )
> 
> How it works:
> 
> Using any old PC clone hardware (486 or better) with at least 32MB
> of RAM (more is better) you set the PC up to boot program called
> "etherboot" or "PXE" . (Can be booted from a floppy, hard drive, cd-rom,
> ROM or from any ethernet card with a Boot rom on it)
> 
> Both etherboot and PXE use the network interface to:
> 	A: get a DHCP IP address
> 	B: use tftp to fetch a small, bootable linux kernel over the LAN
> 
> Then - the small kernel boots, load X-Windows, and viola - instant
> X-terminal.
> 
> In addition to old PC's there are new boxes designed from scratch to be
> thin client X-terminals.  Both will work superbly well.
> 
> Where to get ethernet cards with etherboot roms on them:
> http://www.disklessworkstations.com
> http://www.disklessworkstations.com/cgi-bin/web/scan/fi=products/st=db/co=yes/sf=category/se=10%3A%3A100%20Mbit.html?id=vwFZK5RZ
> 
> A guy who works at that (above) company started and leads the LTSP Open
> Source project, Jim McQuillan.
> 
> -- 
> 
> http://kinz.org
> http://www.fedoranews.org
> Jeff Kinz, Emergent Research, Hudson, MA.
Jack Taffar
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