From owner-freebsd-questions Fri May 24 8:17:26 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mailhost.hirshfields.com (mailhost.hirshfields.com [63.226.159.37]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7117937B407 for ; Fri, 24 May 2002 08:17:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ultra.hirshfields.com (ultra.hirshfields.com [192.168.195.101]) by mailhost.hirshfields.com (8.11.4/8.11.4) with SMTP id g4OFHJe14547 for ; Fri, 24 May 2002 10:17:19 -0500 (CDT) Received: (qmail 23205 invoked from network); 24 May 2002 15:17:18 -0000 Received: from rockford.hirshfields.com (HELO hirshfields.com) (192.168.195.251) by ultra.hirshfields.com with SMTP; 24 May 2002 15:17:18 -0000 Message-ID: <3CEE597F.7020007@hirshfields.com> Date: Fri, 24 May 2002 10:17:19 -0500 From: "Roger P. Johnson" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:0.9.4) Gecko/20011128 Netscape6/6.2.1 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Want to use FreeBSD as a thin client - what's the smallest foot print PC I can get ? Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I am looking at deploying some thin clients. But the prices for them are pretty high for what you get IMHO. Don't want CE. Looked at some Linux Thin clients but wasn't to impressed (Neoware Eon 4000, MaxSpeed 3300, Wyse 5440XL). The only good thing going about thin clients is that there is no hard disk in them. I see the Compaq D600 Series starts at $630.00 list price. But I am forced to buy it with XP (ugh!) that I will never use. I was thinking if I could buy something with a ultra-slim form factor (without Microsoft hopefully) I'ld have maximum flexibility and try putting FreeBSD on it and use it a a thin client. Is anyone else using ultra-slim PC's for this??? Don't want no big honking PC chassis stuff! Thanks -Roger To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message