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toby at np

Jun 2, 2009, 12:48 AM

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Thin Client

Has anyone trying to use a thin client as a front end.

Particularly interested in diskless booting pxe on mythbuntu as an SD
frontend.

There are lots of these sorts of systems on trademe for next to nothing.

I have a shuttle booting of pxe boot already. I'm only running SD as I'm out
of range of HD so don't need a lot of processing horsepower.

Has anyone got one that is known to work with PXE boot.

Cheers

Toby

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Jun 2, 2009, 4:39 AM

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Re: Thin Client [In reply to]

Most HP thin terminals use bog-standard x86 hardware and PXE boot sweet as.
I doubt many would have the CPU grunt to work as a decent Myth front end
though, in particular the VIA ones.

Cheers,
Jeremy

On Tue, Jun 2, 2009 at 7:48 PM, Toby Mills <toby [at] np> wrote:

> Has anyone trying to use a thin client as a front end.
>
> Particularly interested in diskless booting pxe on mythbuntu as an SD
> frontend.
>
>
> There are lots of these sorts of systems on trademe for next to nothing.
>
> I have a shuttle booting of pxe boot already. I’m only running SD as I’m
> out of range of HD so don’t need a lot of processing horsepower.
>
> Has anyone got one that is known to work with PXE boot.
>
>
>
> Cheers
>
> Toby
>
> www.np.co.nz
>
>
>
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nick.read at engineer

Jun 2, 2009, 5:07 AM

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Re: Thin Client [In reply to]

Jeremy Lamb wrote:

Most HP thin terminals use bog-standard x86 hardware and PXE boot sweet as. I doubt many would have the CPU grunt to work as a decent Myth front end though, in particular the VIA ones.

Cheers,
Jeremy

I don't know - I only recently upgraded from a PIII 866MHz SFF box which had no trouble playing back MPEG-4 or MPEG-2 at SD resolutions, without the benefit of XvMC etc. If it wasn't doing anything else you could get by with a bit less I would think.

Alan.Walls at trimble

Jun 2, 2009, 2:06 PM

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Re: Thin Client [In reply to]

www.minimyth.org

I use a via MII 12000 as a diskless SD frontend using PXE boot. It
works great.

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Jeremy Lamb wrote:

Most HP thin terminals use bog-standard x86 hardware and PXE boot sweet
as. I doubt many would have the CPU grunt to work as a decent Myth front
end though, in particular the VIA ones.

Cheers,
Jeremy

I don't know - I only recently upgraded from a PIII 866MHz SFF box which
had no trouble playing back MPEG-4 or MPEG-2 at SD resolutions, without
the benefit of XvMC etc. If it wasn't doing anything else you could get
by with a bit less I would think.

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