Re: Thin Client

[Joel Roth <joelz@pobox.com>]

On Sun, Mar 26, 2017 at 10:42:14AM -0400, Dan Ritter wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 25, 2017 at 05:08:34AM +0000, David wrote:
> > On Fri, 2017-03-24 at 19:48 +0000, Brian wrote:
> > > On Fri 24 Mar 2017 at 19:20:54 +0000, David wrote:
> > > 
> > > > Dear Group,
> > > > 
> > > > Has anybody put Debian onto a thin client?
> > > > 
> > > > If so what version?
> > > > 
> > > > I'm going to try soon, so if there's any guidance I'd appreciate
> > > > it.
> > > 
> > > Much, much, much too wide a question. Please narrow it down to some
> > > specfic client.
> > > 
> > The unit I am looking at is a 10ZiG RBT-470, seems to have a good
> > specification and is cheap.
> 
> 
> It looks like a 256MB RAM 400 MHz Pentium. Performance will be 
> absolutely terrible compared to a $200 Chromebook converted over
> to Linux.

I provided my dad a converted Chromebook years ago. It took
a long time to configure, run fine for years, till my dad
hit the booby trap on the boot screen for disabling the
developer mode. 

-- 
Joel Roth