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The Thin-Client Challenge?

Posted by Cliff on from the might-be-something-worthwhile-here dept.

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. wow...$150 by ReidMaynard · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I have nothing more to add at this time

    except

    this sounds like a stupid idea...btw, whats a w2k terminal server do?

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  2. What the hell has /. become? by Usquebaugh · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Firstly, this is not really a difficult problem, I've submitted far harder and had them refused :-( If you're a programmer and know how to search the web you can probably achieve most of this within a week.

    Secondly, it's worth a damn sight more than $150 That's the real problem, It's not some hacker with a pet peeve or needs to know if some tech is available, it's a company asking for free consultation. Shouldn't this be posted in the OSDN jbs section?

    Go on mod me off topic, until /. has a daily article for people to bitch about /. I'll continue to post off topic.

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