JLab Thin Clients

Thin Clients

There are two different types of thin clients supported and recommended by the Computer Center:

a thin client for users who primarily use Windows applications
a thin client for users who primarily use Unix and X windows applications.

The first type of client connects to a terminal server upon boot-up, and allows you to have what appears to be a complete Windows PC running on your desktop. The second type of client is a system that boots from a server and runs a Linux desktop. This configuration allows users to run Linux applications locally with the added benefit of connectivity to the terminal server to run Windows applications.

The Computer Center has evaluated and tested several different thin client models from Sun, Dell, NCD, IBM, ThinkNIC, and Wyse. The Sun, ThinkNIC, Dell, and NCD thin clients do provide some of the functionality of the NCD Xterminals, but have some limiting factors related to deployment and manageability. The following are the currently recommended Computer Center thin client solutions:

Windows Thin Client

Diskless Linux Thin Client

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