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The Thin-Client Challenge?

An Anonymous Coward asks: "A friend of mine showed me this webpage which basically asks this question and offers a challenge to create a UNIX-ish Thin Client that can connect to a Windows terminal server. He really is serious, and has attempted this on his own before. Any hope out there in the Linux world for a small, easy to deploy thin-client only distro?" This is not the first time this question has come thru the pipe before, however I figure if someone can answer this challenge, all will benefit. Does anyone think this can be done? If so, speak up, if not, please give reasons as to why.

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  1. Poor college student? by fliplap · · Score: 0, Flamebait
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    What i would like to know is, how do you verify that these lists are opt-in?



    Plus, I find it very hard to believe you only want this product for small private or non-profit organizations since all your other services are trying to hook larger fish. Don't try to pretend you can't figure this out yourself, or afford a decent amount to have someone do it for you. ou obviously plan to make a decent amount of money off this, i suggest you offer some kind of profit sharing to the developer. And hey, if you really don't plan on making much money off it, well then you won't be losing much right?



    I find it ever harder to believe that you goto school full time, run all these services by your self, and still don't have a clue about unix. If you know this little about Unix you shouldn't be advertising a hosting service. I noticed you offer unix shells as well, what business do you have offering shell services without knowing 2 bits about Unix? Also, if you have all this time to develop "scWeb" why can't you get some books and do this project yourself. I noticed this projectg went from version 1.0 to 3.0 in less than 2 months.


    All in all, you don't provide a credible story. I suggest you change your slashdot nick, reword your entire posting, come up with a new story, register a new domain, and submit this question again. Don't try to pull that "I'm too poor and stupid routine" because you're obviously not.