[Voyage-linux] PXE Voyage as replacement for Thin Client?

[Edwin Whitelaw]

Might want to take a look at the mini-ITX m'boards such as Jetway 
offered on mini-box.com (and I'm sure other places as well).  It's not 
exactly a "thin" client but it is most certainly small.

Edwin

On 12/15/2010 8:13 AM, Matt Signorello wrote:
> Hey Guys,
>
> So I have been researching this for the past few weeks in some spare
> time at work and would love to have the opinion of this community as I
> would like to base all of my network appliances on Voyage.
>
> Long story short - I just moved to a new house and there are network
> jacks in the kitchen, bedroom, basement, etc and I would like to have
> a way to provide a full web browser (flash and all) to machines around
> the house. Specifically I have found a few small form factor thin
> client terminals that support PXE and a traditional think client
> implementation that should be more than suitable to do this task and
> probably more.
>
> LTSP (Linux terminal server project) looks to be pretty cool and
> basically would let me do what I want to do out of the box.. However,
> many people have stated the while the solution works.. its quite
> lacking in regards to any kind of interactive website compatibility as
> well as video / audio playback in general.
>
> I have come up with a new idea: Boot into a complete voyage system
> through PXE and then just run X and firefox / whatever on the thin
> client with all of the source binaries, scripts, home folders etc
> being located on my server. I understand that the main downside would
> be that the thin client hardware would take on all of the processing
> (thus defeating the main goal of thin client) however I have been able
> to use my little 500mhz alix-clone to do basically everything ive
> thrown at it. I don't have a VGA port so I don't really know how a
> fluxbox WM and firefox / openoffice would perform. Although -- Many
> cheap thin clients on ebay (less than $150) seem to have a 1ghz +
> processor...
>
> -----
>
> Some additional notes -- I just don't want to have a tower or mini
> machine everywhere for the basic tasks that we use the systems for. I
> would like to be as energy conscious as possible and I am the only
> main power user anyway..
>
> However my girlfriend and I often would like to check our gmail, look
> up recipies etc from the kitchen and bedroom but find the laptops to
> be a bit clunky and get in the way if they are on the counter... Only
> reason I didn't get netbooks was becase I was able to obtain some
> small 10" touch panel displays and wallmounts basically for free but
> no other hardware so I need to source some kind of "pc" anyway.. and I
> think it would be pretty cool to essentially take any PC / Laptop I
> want and have it boot into my pre-defined environment..
>
> ----
>
> So that is pretty much what I am after - Looking for any comments and
> suggestions that can be provided.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Matt
>
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