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Linux on HP Thin Clients.

Posted by timothy on from the splendiferous dept.

Vidar writes "HP has a line of thin clients, however, only one of these run Linux. But, being generic x86 hardware, you can install Linux on them. And it has been done, running Damn Small Linux from the flash of those devices. The article has a complete walkthrough for the procedure, as well as some toughts on the topic. It can be added that the rdesktop client is quicker than Microsoft's own RDP client. Also, with Linux it is easy to upgrade remotely, or even change to an entirely new protocol. Once one terminal is upgraded, the rest is done with dd and a USB stick!"

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  1. Been there, done that by Yonder+Way · · Score: 3, Informative

    It works great. About a year ago I used LTSP on top of CentOS Linux to run a bunch of HP thin clients. I PXE booted the thin clients which worked great. You have to add a couple of options to the LTSP config file to work with the Via chipset on the HP thin client but it's a no brainer and works well.

  2. Re:Thin client... by sbryant · · Score: 2, Informative

    RTFA!

    Quote:

    no, the t5000's don't have floppy, cdrom or anything else. They can, however, boot from USB or Network (PXE).

    So, "some kind of net boot approach" is definately possible.

    -- Steve