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Re: [LUG] thin clients: silent, right?



Correct you can't animate, nor pass sound through to thin clients. Bear 
in mind though thin client computing, has little to do with the hardware 
involved it is the methodology of the computing. A thin client 
enviroment only passes Display info and Keyboard / Mouse input back and 

If you look more closely on the LTSP website you will find that
sound is included.

forth between the server. Once you start talking about Animation, Sound, 
Gaming or detailed graphics then the merits of the fat client network 

For many applications and environments none of these apply.

are better suited. In such an enviroment a Terminal would not be the 
solution. Perhaps a quiet PC that was combining a Fat Client network 
sharing enviroment with Graphics / Sounds apps running locally and 
transaction processing using thin client deamon (VNC or LTSP). As with 
all things IT no one size fits all.

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