Xterm vs diskless client

[Anthony J. Gabrielson]

Where can you get this?  How big is it?

Inquiring minds want to know....

Thanks,
Anthony

On Sat, 26 Aug 2000 linuxguy at ici.net wrote:

> 
> I have question... as recently posted, I just received a
> little "linux" terminal by Siemens/Fujitsu (Scovery 211).  The system
> is a 200MHz IDT Winchip with 64 MB of memory and a ATI Rage IIc (4MB).
> It's also got 10/100 MB ethernet with boot rom AND a 16MB flash card
> that plugs into the IDE bus and looks like  disk.
> 
> Let me simply say that $125, this is the coolest toy I've had in a while!
> It makes NO noise!
> 
> At this point, I am booting the preloaded linux which then XDMCP's from
> my server in the basement.  It work's great.
> 
> I also want to try the custom build a current kernel and build a network
> bootable image.  Here comes my question...
> 
> When I plan my network bootable image, should I stick with a XDMCPing
> client, or should I go to a true diskless client which mounts everything
> from the network.  My server is pretty beefy (Dual 266MHz PII, SCSI, etc)
> and there's the SWAP over NFS concerns, thus my initial opinion is that
> XDMCP is the way to go.
> 
> Comments?
> 
> 
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