On Sun, 2017-03-26 at 10:42 -0400, Dan Ritter wrote: > On Sat, Mar 25, 2017 at 05:08:34AM +0000, David wrote: > > On Fri, 2017-03-24 at 19:48 +0000, Brian wrote: > > > On Fri 24 Mar 2017 at 19:20:54 +0000, David wrote: > > > > > > > Dear Group, > > > > > > > > Has anybody put Debian onto a thin client? > > > > > > > > If so what version? > > > > > > > > I'm going to try soon, so if there's any guidance I'd > > > > appreciate > > > > it. > > > > > > Much, much, much too wide a question. Please narrow it down to > > > some > > > specfic client. > > > > > > > The unit I am looking at is a 10ZiG RBT-470, seems to have a good > > specification and is cheap. > > > It looks like a 256MB RAM 400 MHz Pentium. Performance will be > absolutely terrible compared to a $200 Chromebook converted over > to Linux. > > That said, there's nothing preventing you from trying. Set up a > standard PXE netboot and look for problems. > > -dsr- Thank you for the replies.
Brian, the URL's give useful information. Dan, I'm not looking for desktop performance, I need a small and economical to run 'box' where I need to leave a machine running 24 hours a day. I currently have 4 Raspberry Pi's, 2 as DNS servers and 2 as Syslog servers, I plan to try a thin client for this type of application. David.
