Re: Linux Terminal Server Project WAS Re: Cheap Control Panels?

["Michael Van Wesenbeeck" <michael.van.wesenbeeck@xxxxxxx>]

>----- Original Message -----
>From: "paul_watkin" <paul_watkin@xxxxxxx>
>To: <ukha_d@xxxxxxx>
>Sent: Friday, August 02, 2002 6:07 PM
>Subject: [ukha_d] Linux Terminal Server Project WAS Re: Cheap
>Control
Panels?

> As I understand it the server side parts of this project are
> installed over a standard distribution of Linux (I have Suse7.1)

Yep.  all supported distros are on ltsp.org

> unsing win4lin would then allow me to run bog standard outlook and
IE
> on the server and see it remotely on the thin client? Any idea how
> well it would cope with multiple instances of ann app like outlook
at

Yes, that's basically why I suggested it, but linux has lots of
replacements
for a mail client like Outlook.  Have a look at
www.nagarur.com/linuxbee/linwin.htm for windows replacements.
Opera is a nice linux webbrowser.  I like IE too, but it seems to
crash
pretty often these days on my win2k box.

> this setup would allow me to have thin clients around the house
> (thinking Kitchen and bedrooms in particular where it would be
hard
> to accomodate a full pc, even a small one) with touchscreens and
RF
> keyboards and not have the drawbacks of another umpteen sets of
> microsoft software to maintain and the noise created by hard
drives
> whirring

For sure! no extra OS licenses. and the clients can be solid state!
(less
heat, less noise)

> Could the thin client not also act as a very crude streaming media
> player for multi room audio at the same time, again thinking
bedrooms
> (background music/radio requirement rather than HiFi)

Haven't really looked in to this yet, but ltsp does support running
local
apps in the clients, so you could run an MP3 player on the client that
gets
it's content from the server.  Sound is supported on the KDE3, but
this
needed some recompiling.  A HOWTO will be put on their site. With the
next
revision of the ltsp package it should be included.  I suggest you
look at
their site and see if /when sound is really supported.

Hope this helps,

Michael ;-)

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