[H-GEN] Thin client options in 2014

[Mark Ellem]

Adding to this, Intel have a new generation of NUC (Next Unit of 
Computing) which are moderately specced PC's un 12cmx12cmx4cm boxes that 
start at ~$200.

Combined with a monitor and KB/mouse these would be ideal as thin 
clients. They even VESA mount for added space saving.

Mark.

On 06/02/14 22:00, gavin duley wrote:
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> On 06/02/14 21:43, Gary Curtis wrote:
>> So... you run a nation-wide business that opted years ago for a
>> thin client solution based on Sunrays. You have close to 1000 of
>> these units spread across multiple offices running Ubuntu desktop.
>>
>> Oracle, who we all know bought Sun Microsystems years ago, have
>> decided to no longer continue the Sunray line.
>>
>> You, and all your IT staff, harbour various levels of revulsion at the
>> thought of reintroducing anything MS into the business. (apart from
>> the occasional recalcitrant who has convinced you in the past to
>> allow some Windows box for some nefarious purpose or other).
>>
>> How do you move forward...?
>
> You can just use cheap PCs as dumb terminals -- see, for example 
> http://www.ltsp.org/
>
> The maths & computer science department at the uni I did my 
> undergraduate degree at (Uni of New England, Armidale) did this. All 
> the computer lab computers were cheap PCs that just allowed users to 
> log into an X11 session on the server. They ran a fairly minimal 
> install of Linux, which was just used to boot the machine and make the 
> connection to the server. No idea exactly how they did this, it was 
> probably a fairly involved X11 setup.
>
> gavin,
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