Linked by killermike on Wed 22nd Aug 2007 18:04 UTC
The Nivo is a new 'ultra thin' client device under development by British, not-for-profit organization Ndiyo. Its principle intended market is developing nations and the project is based upon a non-profit model. The aim of the project is to create hardware and software that can lower both financial and technical skill cost of computer service provision.
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Member since:2005-06-29
Your hardware may be free, but the power it uses is not. Perhaps if this device is everything the developer and the reviewer claim it is, you could begin to replace your old systems as they die off with these boxes. Depending on how much the hardware will sell for, they would probably pay for themselves very soon with the energy saved. Noise and heat would become less of an issue as well.
Member since:2005-07-06
noise and heat are not an issue. its a doctor's office and the systems are in exam rooms, but they are locked in cabinets so they can't be accessed by the patients. as for power, i don't know. i disconnected the hds and cd drives. all the systems are p3s and only have a video card, ram, ethernet card, and floppy drive to boot from.
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2005-07-06
although having smaller hardware like that would be nice, everything the author talks about is already possible with a linux box using nfs and dhcp. its how my office is setup. and the hardware was practically free. just used a bunch of old systems and got new monitors for them. they boot and run rdesktop to login to a locked win2k3 session, where the user can only run 1 app. i have thought about doing the same thing at home, but only building a "media network" with mythtv and a bunch of diskless systems.