Embeded Ubuntu?

[Oliver Grawert]

hi,
Am Freitag, den 06.07.2007, 14:59 -0500 schrieb Scott Lockwood:
> Anyone here get one of these new WYSE terminal's working with Linux? I'm
> talking about the WYSE winterm V50 and S50 models. We want to use them
> (or something like them) in place of our fleet of (approx. 400ish) Dell
> E310/3100 machines. We're wanting to run Linux, Xorg, and FireFox on
> them. We've tried Debian, Ubuntu, DSL, and Slackware without much luck.
> We'd like to not have to custom roll our own kernel, but I suspect it
> may well come to that. The problem so far seems to be that the SCSI
> module doesn't load in time for the flash to be mounted as root. I'm
> pretty sure that Red Hat had some sort of nifty embeded projects going,
> but I can't find what I need on their site. Puppy Linux has also been
> suggested. We're not tied to using these WYSE box's either, if you know
> if a GOOD little terminal that's like less than $350, let me know.

does it need to be embedded ? how about netbooting and using LTSP :)
its easy to test it:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuLTSP/LTSPQuickInstall

the LTSP term 170 from http://disklessworkstations.com/ is a very good
device in that price category.

ciao
	oli
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