topic Re: minimal graphical environment for a linux thin client in Operating System - Linux

minimal graphical environment for a linux thin client

'chris' — Thu, 27 Jan 2011 14:19:56 GMT

hi

Which minimal graphical environment will be normaly used for a linux thin client?

Re: minimal graphical environment for a linux thin client

dirk dierickx — Fri, 28 Jan 2011 07:56:40 GMT

You could use the bare minimum, and that is only X without any window manager. That is when you will be exporting the remote display full screen. this works well in a citrix environment for example.

Re: minimal graphical environment for a linux thin client

H.Becker — Fri, 28 Jan 2011 12:15:11 GMT

You may want to have a look at http://www.tinycorelinux.com/

Re: minimal graphical environment for a linux thin client

Lucifer Megacruel — Mon, 31 Jan 2011 09:35:50 GMT

Hi chirx ,
Did you get a chance to get a look at 1disk w windows. X windows on a single floppy. Beats all the others :).

See : http://soundproofingforum.co.uk/soundproofing/soundproofing.htm

Truly Evil
Lucifer Megacruel

Re: minimal graphical environment for a linux thin client

'chris' — Wed, 09 Feb 2011 02:48:18 GMT

Thx a lot, but which desktop is most common on the thin clients?

Re: minimal graphical environment for a linux thin client

Alzhy — Thu, 10 Feb 2011 15:55:35 GMT

This may be what you need:

http://www.ltsp.org/

I use this approach to provide schoolers cheap desktop environments. Linux Terminals are diskless and can be at 512MB of RAM and as long as it has a network card that supports LAN boot -- you're good to go.

Re: minimal graphical environment for a linux thin client

Alzhy — Thu, 10 Feb 2011 15:59:10 GMT

As to yuor question about graphical desktop -- the Ubuntu desktop is whatI am using ith LTSP.... Here are is the URL for the brew - https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuLTSP

My oldest client is a Pentium III based Compaq iPaq with 900Mhz cpu and 512MB RAM... and an on-board GMA950 graphics cip. It performs flawlessly