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Re: [LUG] silicon.com - Why The Linux Desktop Dream Is Over

 

Rob Beard wrote:
> Samuel Toogood wrote:
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>> Rob Beard wrote:
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>>> I remember Larry Ellison a few years back (almost 10 years ago I think) 
>>> saying that Network Computers (i.e. thin clients) would be the future.  
>>> You know, he might have been on to something there.  Just think, an ISP 
>>> could provide a thin client running something like FreeNX connecting to 
>>> a Linux server over a broadband connection.  Storage could be provided 
>>> with a flash card reader or USB pen drive.  Something like that for £15 
>>> a month or so would surely be of interest to those folk who could afford 
>>> a broadband connection but didn't have a computer?
>>>
>>>     
>> You mean like this:
>> http://quoi9.net/english/2006/09/25/free-computer-with-every-broadband-subscription/
>>
>>
>> Alright, it's not a thin client, but it could be.
>>
>> Sam
>>   
> Yeah, that sort of thing or a monitor with a thin client built in.
> 
> Rob

What better use for a Mac? :D

--Grant.

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