look, someone has reinvented the minicomputer architecture!

[Jon Pruente]

http://www.ndiyo.org/

They are building custom hardware for thin client terminals.  They've
got a prototype of an Ethernet based client, and are working on a USB
model.  And it all runs on FOSS.  They're running a custom Ubuntu
install to handle the client setups.  The USB model, called Hubster is
a great concept.  It's better and more focused than what I mentioned
previously.  Run it all over USB and use a hub as the method of
delineating what parts go together for each terminal.  Also, because
it's based on a hub centric model, each station can have an
independent config based on need.  There will be no waste of features
for some, and no lack of features for others.  The Hubster model
sounds like a great way to go about it.  Adding in more USB 2.0 cards
will give more users per machine than slapping in more video cards.
You simply aren't going to get 10 users per machine and give them
their own video card with 3-4 PCI slots.

And, the Ndiyo! people seem to want people to tae their idea and play
with it for non-commercial applications.  Great!

Jon.

On 12/14/06, Luke -Jr <luke at dashjr.org> wrote:
> On Thursday 14 December 2006 09:47, Brian Kelsay wrote:
> > Try LTSP and their are many liveCDs, howtos and clients to make it work
> > fairly painlessly.
>
> As long as you have the video cards, it should be pretty painless anyway.
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