Re: Nightstand Terminal
> On Thu, 2004-12-09 at 06:54 -0500, Scotty Fitzgerald wrote:
>> Once again, the biggest problem is getting you guys to be
>> verbose ;-)
>>
>> Does anybody have experience with the following?
>>
>> 1) A smaller cheaper box, perhaps a stand alone box that takes
>> smaller and slower laptop parts?
>
> If I were you, I'd look into a LCD Screen with an X-terminal built-in.
> Or an LCD X-Term.
>
>> 2) What about serial terminals? The new ones are $400 at CDW.com,
>> but I see that you can get refurbised ones at $20 on ebay? Any
>> ideas on finding companies that are throwing these out? Is the
>> money savings worth not being able to use xfree86 remotely in
>> your own network? At $400 for a new one, perhaps I should buy
>> my girl a Dell, and take her old 386 and begin hacking that?
>
> Not even really worth the effort. Plain old... OMFG. Get her an XTerm
> too and then use a switch, enable XDMCP logins on your Linux machine.
> You'll get a graphical login for your X-terms. Ebay has some too.
>
>> 3) Since an old laptop is a possible solution based on it's size,
>> any reccommended sources for purchasing used laptops that are
>> known to be able to run Woody?!
>
Invest in LTSP.org
It will give you a terminal that can be very quiet with the horsepower of
your workstation. I use a number of notebooks for these clients. The
hard drive is not running so there's zero noise and the power consumption
is on the order of <10W.
Very compatable.
Very easy to set up.
I think the entire learning curve is a good Sunday.
Assumption: It requires the following:
DHCP
DNS (optional)
tftpd
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