[K12OSN] Re: build your own thin client

[Huck]

*Huck's ears perk up at the mention of 'assortment' of monitoring software*

Cacti is rock'n...and BackupPC...heavenly...
any other tidbits of fun administrative software to share?

--Huck

Les Mikesell wrote:
> On Fri, 2006-10-27 at 14:35 -0500, pogson wrote:
> 
>> I've done localUSBprinter/sound/USB drives/1280x1024 and they just work
>> with LTSP 4.2
>>
>> The only things that are likely to be cheaper are multiseat X on regular
>> ATX boxes as thin clients and I have not been able to get that to work.
>> I made up boxes with AGP+5PCI video cards. I can do Xinerama which is
>> fun ;-), five logins with a single keyboard or five keyboards  with a
>> single screen but I have been unable to get five complete seats. I hope
>> to figure it out this weekend.
> 
> Do you have any hints about making the multi-headed thin client work?
> I'd like to do this to view an assortment of monitoring software - most
> would just be a web browser on each screen.
>