Re: [LUG] thin clients: silent, right?

["Mark Evans" <mpe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Correct you can't animate, nor pass sound through to thin clients. Bear 
> in mind though thin client computing, has little to do with the hardware 
> involved it is the methodology of the computing. A thin client 
> enviroment only passes Display info and Keyboard / Mouse input back and 

If you look more closely on the LTSP website you will find that
sound is included.

> forth between the server. Once you start talking about Animation, Sound, 
> Gaming or detailed graphics then the merits of the fat client network 

For many applications and environments none of these apply.

> are better suited. In such an enviroment a Terminal would not be the 
> solution. Perhaps a quiet PC that was combining a Fat Client network 
> sharing enviroment with Graphics / Sounds apps running locally and 
> transaction processing using thin client deamon (VNC or LTSP). As with 
> all things IT no one size fits all.

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