Cindy Murdock
Network Administrator
Meadville Public Library & Crawford County Federated Library System
cmurdock at ccfls.org
Presentation for LITA National Forum, Oct. 2002: http://meadvillelibrary.org/os/lita-ltsp/presentation/
This handout: http://meadvillelibrary.org/os/lita-ltsp/handout.html
The original version of the article I wrote detailing my experiences with the LTSP: http://meadvillelibrary.org/os/ltsp.html
The LITA publication (Open Source Software for Libraries) containing the second version of the article: http://www.lita.org/litapubs/lg9.html
A tarball of my configuration files: http://meadvillelibrary.org/os/thin-client-files.tar.gz
See the readme in the tarball for more details. You might be able to use these to get up and running, with some customization for your particular setup.
LTSP: www.ltsp.org
The main page of the Linux Terminal Server Project.
Diskless Workstations: www.disklessworkstations.com
Sales of bootable network cards as well as entire diskless workstations. Owned & operated by Jim McQuillan, who founded the LTSP.
Rom-o-matic: www.rom-o-matic.net
Here you can generate disk images for network-bootable floppies.
Diediedie.tgz: www.ltsp.org/contrib/diediedie.tgz
Script to kill off extraneous Netscape processes. Could be modified to kill off other troublesome processes also, if necessary.
Icewm: www.icewm.org
Homepage of the icewm window manager.
Blackbox: www.blackbox.org
Homepage of the Blackbox window manager.
Desktop File Manager, a utility for adding icons to icewm's desktop (or to any other window manager without icons, for that matter)
Sites for Tweaking Netscape with .Xdefaults:
A discussion on Slashdot: http://slashdot.org/articles/00/02/23/1046243.shtml
The Public Web Browser Howto: http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/mini/Public-Web-Browser.html
Mandrake Users Organization: http://www.mandrakeuser.org/connect/cbrowse2.html
and
http://www.mandrakeuser.org/connect/cbrowse3.html
Slay: www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/system/admin/idle/Slay.1.2.tar.gz
A handy program for killing off a user's processes.
K12LTSP: www.k12ltsp.org
A modification of the LTSP for use in schools
Netstation: http://netstation.sourceforge.net
PXES: PXES
Can thin clients work in your library? --
Beth Mazin, Joe Mangano, and Dean Baumeister, Memorial Hall Library, Andover, Massachusetts
www.mhl.org/thin/thinclient.htm
Diskless Linux Kiosks, by Jamie Zawinski: http://www.dnalounge.com/backstage/src/kiosk/
How thin clients were created for a nightclub in San Francisco.
Secretaries use Linux, Taxpayers Save Millions: http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=01/08/10/1441239
How the city government of Largo, Florida is using linux-based thin clients to save money.
A Good Tutorial on Setting up the LTSP: http://www.linuxplanet.com/linuxplanet/tutorials/4472/1/
"Servers With a Smile", Fred Volgelstein, Fortune, Sept. 30, 2002, page 195
How businesses are saving money by using Linux.