[K12OSN] A few ~$200 thin clients to try

[Rob Owens]

I've got one ebox2300 (actually a rebranded on from disklessworkstations.com).  I consider it adequate for LTSP 4.2, but it's definitely a bit slower than my P3 clients and my SYM1112 (from Symbio Tech).  It does not give adequate performance under LTSP 5, so you might want to consider how soon you might be upgrading to an LTSP 5 system.  It would be a shame to upgrade and then have to get rid of all your thin clients.

-Rob

On Sat, Apr 05, 2008 at 08:10:57AM -0500, Barry Cisna wrote:
> Hi Bill,
> 
> I/We at school have been using K12LTSP since first version. Of course we
> started out with old P1 machines at school that were cast offs which
> worked fine but looked pretty tacky. If I had my druthers I'd go 100%
> withe the Ebox2300. they are plenty adeqaute for most anything. Simply
> take it out of the little box it comes in, screw it onto the back of a
> *flat* back VESA compliant flat screen with speakers. Turn it on,and go
> into bios and enable pxe boot. You have a no noise, no heat, no power,
> munching thin client. Comes in aneat little ruggidized finned aluminum
> case.You will only need to compile the SIS sound driver for it,to get
> sound from it. To simplyfy things I have a precompiled sound driver you
> can " borrow" to cut down on the grunt time involved in doing the
> compiling,,huh bub. Simply copy/paste this driver into your ltsp drivers
> tree & put an entry in your lts.conf file for this client to use the SIS
> driver.You would be very happy with it, I am sure and/or for a school
> use too. BTW: It does run Flash, Youtube stuff just like the
> noisy/hot/power gobbling machines do too!
> Here is the link to look at:
> 
> 
> http://www.wdlsystems.com/modperl/view_services.cgi?r=list_aisle.plate&aisle_id=1006
> 
> If you call these people you will actually get a human to answer the
> phone as well :-)
> 
> Take care,
> 
> Barry Cisna
> 
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