From owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Apr 21 14:00:39 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0618C16A4D0 for ; Wed, 21 Apr 2004 14:00:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pilchuck.reedmedia.net (pilchuck.reedmedia.net [209.166.74.74]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A01FE43D54 for ; Wed, 21 Apr 2004 14:00:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from reed@reedmedia.net) Received: from reed by pilchuck.reedmedia.net with local-esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 1BGOph-0007dL-00; Wed, 21 Apr 2004 14:00:37 -0700 Date: Wed, 21 Apr 2004 14:00:37 -0700 (PDT) From: "Jeremy C. Reed" To: chat@freebsd.org Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Subject: comparing netboot thin client solutions? X-BeenThere: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Non technical items related to the community List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 21 Apr 2004 21:00:39 -0000 I am currently researching LTSP and K12LTSP (Fedora and LTSP pre-configured). Any other free, open source solutions I should look at? And I'd also like to compare with *BSD solutions. I see the old 1996 Diskless X Server: a how to guide (for FreeBSD) and the Diskless NetBSD HOW-TO. Does anyone have know of any websites or articles comparing netboot thin client setups? Or any personal experience you'd like to share? I am particularly interested in comparing approximate time to setup server for the tftp and bootp tasks and the setup time for the initial pre-configured boot image and run environment. In my case, audio is not needed, just a web browser and printing service. Jeremy C. Reed http://bsd.reedmedia.net/