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Why’s Dell Wise for Buying Wyse?
With cloud computing, desktop as a service, thin client, and virtual desktop infrastructure interest growing significantly over the past year, we witnessed validation of market potential when Dell announced the acquisition of Wyse on Monday, April 2nd, 2012. Wyse, a privately held … Continue reading
Ubuntu on Your Android Smartphone – Will You Run It?
Canonical recently announced Ubuntu on Android, or Ubuntu for your Smartphone. Offering a logical resolution to the markets super-saturation of devices … PCs, Laptops, Tablets, Smartphones … Ubuntu is offering a one device to rule them all mentality. (read more)
School Leverages Sun Hardware, Switches to LTSP Thin Clients
The School of Computer Science at the University of Windsor deployed their first network of diskless thin clients in August of 1987. Since then, the CS school has progressed through three operating systems, four thin client devices, and seven Sun … Continue reading
HP to Open Source WebOS
Ever since a $1.2 billion acquisition of Palm, HP has struggled to find the right spot for WebOS. When HP Touchpad sales never met their estimates the fate of WebOS became very uncertain. On Friday, December 9th, 2011 HP announced … Continue reading
HP Thin Clients with Windows Embedded Device Manager
On December 5th, 2011 HP announced they are the first company to offer unified device management with HP Thin Clients and Microsoft Windows Embedded Device Manager. HP Thin Client models t5740e and t5570e will have the Windows Embedded Device Manager … Continue reading
How To Install LTSP on CentOS 6
This video tutorial shows you how to install LTSP on CentOS 6. The CentOS 6 Live DVD image, downloaded on October 26, 2011 was used in creating this tutorial. It is recommended that your LTSP server has two network interfaces, … Continue reading
How To Setup a Linux Terminal Server
How To Setup a Linux Terminal Server The following video tutorials will teach you how to setup a Linux terminal server.
Steve Jobs talks Thin Clients in 1997
Watch Steve Jobs in 1997 discuss network based computing. Listen for mentions of “Thin Clients” and “stateless devices” (between 2:00 and 4:00). Steve discusses the same benefits and concepts behind the solutions we provide at DisklessWorkstations.com with LTSP. Call it … Continue reading
2X Android Client Hits 500,000 Downloads
2X Software reported over 500,000 downloads of their remote desktop client for the Android operating system today. The Android app connects to the 2X Application Server XG, which creates a virtual desktop environment for thin clients and mobile devices. In addition … Continue reading
Going Diskless – All Network, No Hard Drive
Going Diskless – All Network, No Hard Drive Diskless workstations present themselves as a viable option to thin clients and software rich client/server based deployments. Unlike thin clients, the networked client solution eliminates any form of locally stored operating system on the … Continue reading