At this point in the series we should have a working diskless workstation. Basically we have a full desktop running from an NFS share. This article will explore how to use the server to deliver a desktop, instead of our old laptop. In my case my server is much more powerful in terms of CPU […]
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Ubuntu Diskless Workstation and X-Terminal Howto – Part 2 – Preparing the diskless image
Well, after a short break, we are back to our diskless X-Terminal Howto. Today we will cover building the actual diskless image that will be used to boot the X-Terminal. Using ubuntu, the easiest way to do this is to simply install ubuntu on the machine that will be used for the diskless terminal. You […]
Ubuntu Diskless Workstation and X-Terminal Howto – Part 1 – Preparing the Server
Why a diskless workstation? In today’s day and age, this is a good question. My take on it is that I have a multiuser operating system (Linux) running on a large machine (Dual Xeon 5160 with 12 GB RAM) that could be used from several locations in the house by deploying X-Terminals. Rather than spending […]
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