From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Wed May 11 00:06:18 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E1DFD16A4CE for ; Wed, 11 May 2005 00:06:18 +0000 (GMT) Received: from post-22.mail.nl.demon.net (post-22.mail.nl.demon.net [194.159.73.192]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5744F43D7D for ; Wed, 11 May 2005 00:06:18 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from albi@scii.nl) Received: from aseed.demon.nl ([83.160.138.119]:9957 helo=mail.aseed.antenna.nl) by post-22.mail.nl.demon.net with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DVejx-0004su-Gc; Wed, 11 May 2005 00:06:17 +0000 Received: from http.aseed.antenna.nl (unknown [192.168.0.50]) by mail.aseed.antenna.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 377D0154125; Wed, 11 May 2005 02:08:59 +0200 (CEST) Received: from amandla.scii.nl (217-19-30-147.dsl.cambrium.nl [217.19.30.147]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by http.aseed.antenna.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 491F358CC27; Wed, 11 May 2005 02:06:12 +0200 (CEST) Date: Wed, 11 May 2005 02:06:14 +0200 From: albi To: Chris Phillips Message-Id: <20050511020614.7fdb6a9b.albi@scii.nl> In-Reply-To: <42814A17.1010301@Rainbow-IT.net> References: <20050509210458.GB9844@bloom.cse.buffalo.edu> <42814A17.1010301@Rainbow-IT.net> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 1.9.9 (GTK+ 2.6.7; i386-portbld-freebsd5.3) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: FreeBSD-STABLE@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Creating a mini install disk, for particular needs X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 11 May 2005 00:06:19 -0000 On Wed, 11 May 2005 00:56:07 +0100 Chris Phillips wrote: > I am trying to find a suitable alternative to our crappy, solid-state, > thin client boxes (because they are so awfully unreliable & the > manufacturer has also gone down the tubes). ------ cut --------- > It would be very cool, if I could do this for our company. More bums on > seats, for FreeBSD :) imho FreeNX is the best solution for this, run FreeNX as server on some fast box and let the clients run from that see http://www.freshports.org/net/freenx/, http://www.nomachine.com and http://cvs.berlios.de/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/freenx/freenx/ChangeLog