Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 14th Mar 2008 21:52 UTC
Linux "When my girlfriend visits me, she has to work on a mini PC while I use my laptop to finish whatever I postponed at the office. Her PC has a 1GHz VIA processor and 128 MB of RAM and runs Ubuntu. You can imagine how slowly it boots, even with Linux installed, and GNOME runs so slowly that it's quite irritating. I didn't want to reformat and install a lightweight Linux distribution like Fluxbuntu because the mini PC doesn't have a CD-ROM drive, and I already had 10GB of data that would have taken a long time to back up. Instead, I found and installed some lightweight software to improve her computing experience."
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Mini PC as a thin client
by Different on Mon 17th Mar 2008 08:18 UTC
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2007-07-03

Mini PC make a great thin client as it's underpowered but yet cheap enough

Get a high end PC as the server and get the mini PC to run the Windows apps from it

You can use software such as ThinServer

www.aikotech.com/thinserver.htm