[TriLUG] Xubuntu for Thin Clients

[Owen Berry]

As someone who's never setup or even used LTSP before I'm just going to
take a shot in the dark on this one ... aren't they saying that Xubuntu
is a good client to be pulled from the central server and executed on
the client because it's relatively lightweight.

Owen

On Thu, Sep 21, 2006 at 10:47:45PM -0400, James McDermott wrote:
> Hello All,
> 
> We are starting to build a small thin-client demo network for a
> classroom environment. 
> 
> The recommended requirements for the thin-client computer is a 300 MHz
> P2 with 64 MB RAM and a 4MB display card. The thin-client computer can
> run with no hard drive on the machine.  
>  
> Xubuntu is advertised as a good OS for thin-clients?
> 
> I am wondering why we should have an OS installed on our thin-clients? I
> speculate that maybe this gives us the ability to reboot the thin-client
> machines into a Xubuntu session if the server was down? 
> 
> If the server is down, will the thin-client try to boot to the network
> (fail) and then automatically boot from the hard drive (assuming the
> correct boot order is set in BIOS)? 
> 
> Does PXE enabled NIC booting or booting using a etherboot floppy require
> that the machine have an installed OS?
> 
> Our server will be a P4 running Edubuntu.
> 
> If you have any thoughts about why we should install an OS like Xubuntu
> in the P2 thin-clients, please advise. 
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Jim McDermott