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I got a p90 here set up as thinclient. If the thinclient is really thin you don't really need much. This one has 32mb RAM and as I say, 90mhz CPU. It runs very well if using ltsp because all the processing is done remotely. I have also got XFree86 (the full thing), IceWM, ssh and midnight commander on a 64mb flash card. With graphics rendered locally like this it's usable but not as responsive as we tend to be used to these days. You could view this set up as "not-so-thin". If you're interested in distributing CPU time like this you might want to check out http://www.pps.jussieu.fr/~jch/software/kdrive.html I've also found a p90, 32mb to be ok with "1diskxwin", but I can't find the download mirror for it. If you're going to try ltsp then you don't need anything in the client to boot from if you have a ethernet card that has a boot rom built in. Alternatively you can use this: http://syslinux.zytor.com/pxe.php This is very cool :) I suggest you try using a current machine as a thinclient before you spend £££. You might do this using the pxe bootdisk for example. I recommend this since you need to know dhcp and tftp a bit and it can have it's stumbling blocks. By the way, the reason I take interest in thinclients is so that I can chuck my noisy box in another room, access it remotely and get some sleep. This could be the subject of the next lug meet. My p90 is heavy but just about carryable. ps2's and xbox's also make great thinclients too. In fact for this you might even be able to have a seporate cd with the thinclient stuff on like it was just another game! I also have a program for Windows called "X-Win32" that is basically an X Server for win32. XFree86 is also available on Windows via cygwin, it works well in combo with putty. Unfortunately I worked out you need a gigabit connection and a bit more (compression might do it) to play games such as Quake3. Quake2/1 or doom and ut+acsii-lib can help this. Having said this, gigabit cards are now only £45 each. (though hubs/switches still astronomic). p.s. It would be handy if the next meet co-insided with the 2600 meet, I'd like to meet those guys but don't fancy the extra money to fund the trip from Plymouth->Exeter. Many thanks. ----------------------------------------- This email was sent using FREE Catholic Online Webmail! http://webmail.catholic.org/ If this message is a solicitation for transferring funds, this user is attempting to defraud you. -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG Mail majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe list" in the message body to unsubscribe.