[ILUG] Linux Internet Cafe Software?

Paul O'Malley ompaul at eircom.net
Tue Apr 27 10:44:46 IST 2004


On Tue, 2004-04-27 at 11:00, Barry Flanagan wrote:
> On Mon, 2004-04-26 at 22:34, Barry O'Donovan wrote:
> 
> > Does anyone else not think this is overkill?
> > 
> > You're setting up a Linux based internet cafe. The easiest thing to do here 
> > would probably be to have one powerfull application server and cheaper 
> > low-powered clients.
> > 
> I'd agree with that. I would not look a whole lot further than Linux
> Terminal Server Project (http://www.ltsp.org/). Set up a central server
> and have all the rest thin clients.
> 
> There are a couple of Internet Cafe add-ons in the contrib section. 
> This, NSS-mysql and KDE Kiosk would give you pretty much everything you
> could need.
> 
> -- 
> -Barry Flanagan
> 
Hi,
Further to Barry's suggestion I would suggest that you check out the low
power Mini ITX boxes with can be very suitable, you can have them with
or without disk :-)

Regards,

Paul O'Malley





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