Date: Wed, 09 Aug 2006 11:36:23 -0400 From: Chris Shenton <chris@shenton.org> To: "Ansar Mohammed" <ansarm@gmail.com> Cc: Nagy L?szl? <nagylzs@enternet.hu>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Thin terminals for FreeBSD Message-ID: <86y7txdiq0.fsf@Bacalao.shenton.org> In-Reply-To: <768631270608090725j3b0fafbdo4d982ff8981564c8@mail.gmail.com> (Ansar Mohammed's message of "Wed, 9 Aug 2006 10:25:51 -0400") References: <44D79242.3050108@enternet.hu> <20060807231202.GA9552@epia2.farid-hajji.net> <86hd0mdm86.fsf@Bacalao.shenton.org> <768631270608090725j3b0fafbdo4d982ff8981564c8@mail.gmail.com>
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"Ansar Mohammed" <ansarm@gmail.com> writes: > the EPIA's look nice but cost too much. > For comparable performance you can retrofit an old netier XL2000 on ebay > with a laptop hard drive. > They are small, fanless and come with an AMD 400-450 Mhz proc. > They usually go for about 10$ on ebay. You need to get an internal laptop > IDE cable and a laptopn hard drive... > > they also support netboot! So yo dont really need the hard drive, Sure, agreed. The EPIA's just what I needed for the space I had at the time. I was just pointing out that diskless boxes, net booting, and NFS mounted apps are a big win.
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