Never underestimate the usefullness of being able to bolt the brains to the back of the display.<br><br><a href="http://www.norhtec.com/products/mcsr/index.html">http://www.norhtec.com/products/mcsr/index.html</a><br><br>The cpu is not very powerful but the graphics supports offloaded video decompression. <br>
<br>Plus these:<br><a href="http://www.logicsupply.com/categories/mainboards/pico_itx">http://www.logicsupply.com/categories/mainboards/pico_itx</a><br><br>with tech data here:<br><a href="http://www.via.com.tw/en/initiatives/spearhead/pico-itx/">http://www.via.com.tw/en/initiatives/spearhead/pico-itx/</a><br>
<br>Be sure to look at devices using the VX700 graphics:<br><a href="http://www.via.com.tw/en/products/chipsets/v-series/vx700/index.jsp">http://www.via.com.tw/en/products/chipsets/v-series/vx700/index.jsp</a><br><br>The link at the bottom of the page leads to linux drivers here:<br>
<a href="http://linux.via.com.tw/support/downloadFiles.action">http://linux.via.com.tw/support/downloadFiles.action</a><br><br>however, I'm pretty convinced it's in the mainstream X packaging and kernel now.<br><br>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jun 25, 2010 at 8:33 AM, William Fragakis <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:william@fragakis.com">william@fragakis.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
oops, bad link for the msi. That's a dual core. A single core will do<br>
just fine. Newegg seems out of them at the moment. Dual cores will do if<br>
you need to run the apps locally (on the client not the server) for some<br>
reason.<br>
<br>
regards,<br>
<font color="#888888">William<br>
</font><div class="im"><br>
On Fri, 2010-06-25 at 02:07 -0400, jrtroberts wrote:<br>
</div><div><div></div><div class="h5">> I am working with a friend of mine to slowly get his house setup for<br>
> home automation. He is trying to get his house setup as a demo house<br>
> for home automation packages, an entrepreneurial business he owns. He<br>
> is not the most tech savvy guy I have ever met, but he has some money<br>
> and a strong desire to make this work. I was hoping that someone at ALE<br>
> has had some experience with thin clients and home automation with linux.<br>
><br>
> He has two daughters in grade school and would like them to have thin<br>
> clients in their rooms. He would also like to have streaming video to<br>
> his TV's and possibly some other thin clients for things such as<br>
> security management, lighting control, sprinkler control, and anything<br>
> else he can roll into the home automation package. I am aware that he<br>
> may not need thin clients for all of this, but I would still like to<br>
> understand my options.<br>
><br>
> His primary system is an Ubuntu 9.10x64 desktop system. Because issues<br>
> with the mobo and 10.04 we cannot upgrade until drivers and other issues<br>
> are figured out on the linux side. It is a core2 quad with 8 gigs of<br>
> ram, 2 gig nics, and plenty of storage capacity. I am hoping that<br>
> setting up roaming user accounts and terminal services is a fairly<br>
> straight forward task. Whether it is or not, I could use some input on<br>
> this subject as well.<br>
><br>
> The more important issue is pricing or building the thin clients. Is<br>
> there a good company to look into when buying thin clients for this type<br>
> of environment. I am very inexperienced with this type of hardware and<br>
> generally inexperienced with linux as whole. Any help would be greatly<br>
> appreciated.<br>
><br>
> Thanks for your time.<br>
><br>
> Joshua Roberts<br>
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