[PLUG] Thin-clients

[Larry Brigman]

On Tue, Feb 12, 2008 at 12:37 PM, eehouse.org <eehouse at eehouse.org> wrote:
> > The 2300's are a bit slow, but one of the main uses was to run some
>  > tutoring software via Windows 2003 terminal server.  We lowered the
>  > resolution and tweaked some GUI settings to get things drawing a bit
>  > quicker.
>  >
>  > Amusing is that rdesktop running on these provides a snappier GUI
>  > experience (in Windows 2003) than the native Gnome desktop. :)
>
>  On my 2300, Firefox is faster xhosted from my laptop than running locally.
>  Not sure I'm surprised, though; the thing is ~400 bogomips.
>
>
>  > I noticed a new ebox-4300 which is the same profile as the 2300 but a
>  > bit faster (and Via, unlike the 2300sx).  The price isn't that great yet
>  > ($231).
>
>  I have a 4300.  It's a sweet box.  But yeah, the price is a bit high.
>  And now that VIA has announced 64-bit processors that are
>  die-compatible one can hope that either the price will go down or there
>  will soon be a much faster machine available in the same case.
>
>
>  > After this adventure, WDL was great in helping us out and I can now
>  > highly recommend them for embedded hardware.  We're soon going to be
>  > testing a setup with the 2300 + built-in wireless.  I'll keep the
>  > list updated.
>
>  Am I wasting my time hoping to get the 2300-SX running Debian?
>  Eventually I want to put a 160G hard drive in it and use it for NAS
>  and maybe (with USB audio) to drive my wife's stereo.  So I don't need
>  PXE-boot to work: that's just the easiest way to install -- or was,
>  anyway, for my 2300 and 4300.
>
>

The easy way to get this going would be to use freeNas on a USB drive
as the boot device.
No, it isn't Linux but is really simple to setup and get going for a NAS box.