PCLinuxOnline reviews how to employ Mandrake Linux as a terminal server. This is a free alternative to Windows-based Citrix software. It allows you to extend the life of older computers by turning them into terminals running from a centralised server.
Isn’t it that if you do a HD-install with the latest Knoppix that you get this functionality “out of the box”..?
Yes, it’s true, but can you run it on a p75 without a harddrive?
wonderful, wonderful, wonderful
hi eugenia
I have work with LTSP for a while and it’s a good soft. It’s extensible, easy and powerful.
I have set it with Mandrake for the beginning but switch to Gentoo because Mandrake fails on an application server. High numbers of error depend on that and we feel changing over to Gentoo will do the trick.
So LTSP is a good cheap solution to reuse old hardware. You can have no hd in the computer and only 8 meg ram. We have 486 sx 33 that make good terminal with IceWM.
Jeff
Serving X sessions is old news. Show me a Linux box serving real Windows RDP sessions (Microsoft’s Terminal Server) and I’ll be impressed.
Listen up buddy…
A Windows RDP session is not what defines a terminal server. Dispite what MS tells you, Unix is what defined the terminal. Ever go into a store or bank, and they have those things that look like computers at each teller? Those, my friend, are called terminals. Terminal servers have long been around, long before anything like X even existed. It’s an insult to hear someone call a linux server not real compared to Windows, when windows just took an old idea and is trying to pass it off as new.
You’re right, providing services to terminals _has_ been around for a long time. Serial, X, whatever. Thats my point. A lot of articles out there sing the praises of, gosh, using X in a network environment. Yawn.
I never said a Linux server is “not real compared to Windows.” Debian GNU/Linux is in fact the only OS I have on my machine. But there is no turn-key solution for Linux analogous to MS Terminal Server which provides Windows applications over RDP to clients. (which as I said would really be something) People who sell products derived from WINE are slowly approaching this.
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is something I would love to see. It would be a great use for RDP only thin clients. 😉
That’s funny, I thought Digital did exactly that.