Thin Clients

[Warren Togami]

The IOpener was made by a failed company that was screwed by a bad business
model and hardware hackers that hacked away their subscription service and
to make themselves extremely low cost PC appliances with built in an LCD
display, keyboard, trackpad, 56k modem, and ethernet via USB adapter.  Those
machines made awesome thin clients, but they aren't worth the price they are
being sold on Ebay.

Here is a very good modern alternative.
http://www.thinknic.com/
Internet appliance that boots Linux from a CD.  You could make your own CD
to boot it as a Linux thin client.  Nice, and looks cool, but still
wasteful.  Why does it need a CD drive?  I wish somebody would make a box
like this, but with a flashable boot ROM.  That would be the perfect Linux
thin client.

Oh well.   In the mean time we can all recycle useless 486's through P100's
into useful thin clients.  Especially now that powerful thin client servers
are pretty cheap now-a-days (main requirement is plenty of RAM... which is
dirt cheap).

Now if someone is using a "useless P100" and you are offended, I apologize
in advance ;)
(donate it to my organization for a small tax credit and get yourself
something decent... please... for your own good!  It'll go to a school in
the islands in a thin client computer lab.  Hmm... I should post here a call
for an obsolete computer drive for schools.)

----- Original Message -----
From: "Dusty" <dusty at sandust.com>
To: "Linux & Unix Advocates & Users" <luau at list.luau.hi.net>
Sent: Wednesday, April 25, 2001 10:05 PM
Subject: [luau] Re: yo Re: LUG?


> I don't know what an Iopener is , but there are several companies that
make special thin clients.