[lug] Linux Thin Clients

[Michael D. Hirsch]

On Saturday 13 December 2003 07:05 pm, Matt James wrote:
> BLUGers,
>     I'm looking to transform about 200 some odd Dell GXI model PC's
> into thin clients to connect to a Windows Terminal Server.  I've seen
> various linux based solutions that are appealing.  I'm wondering if any
> of you have experience with this type of setup and might offer any
> suggestions. The aim is to do this transformation without having to
> purchse a bunch of software licenses.  The GXI's are basically Pentium
> 133 or 166 machines with a max of 32MB of ram and maybe 2GB HDD's.  Any
> suggestions would be appreciated.  Thanks

My first thoughts are LTSP and rdesktop.  Use LTSP to boot off a server, then 
use rdesktop to connect to Windows Terminal Server.

ltsp has undergone a recent revision and it is now very easy to install on 
several distributions.  Check it out at http://ltsp.org

Michael