[Thinlinc-technical] Live TLCOS

[David Edmondson]

On Thu, Jan 24 2013, Peter Astrand wrote:
> Hi. We have considered making a "Live" version of TLCOS. The bug for
> this is https://www.cendio.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=2775 . This
> was a while, though. In general, TLCOS is based on an old Linux
> distribution and therefore more suitable for converting old PCs into
> thin clients. Running it on modern hardware does not always work. We
> are considering if we should upgrade TLCOS (bug 3905), or if
> decommissioning makes more sense (bug 4356).

Maintaining and testing something is a burden for Cendio, I agree.

> As an alternative, the Thinstation distribution can be used
> (http://www.thinstation.org/). At one point, it seemed to establish
> itself as a "the de facto standard" for thin client distributions, but
> now I'm not sure that will happen. But you can consider trying it
> out. Feedback is appreciated.

I had a very quick look. The current thinstation auto-builders don't
produce anything for the current version (5), which means that it would
be necessary to download the thinstation builder and learn how to use
it. It did look as though it would produce very small images,
though. For older terminals with 256M of RAM (or less!) that might be a
requirement.

For my own case it was simpler (and more interesting) to build something
using the Debian Live infrastructure, as mentioned in another message.
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