Blah Blah Blog: Linux Terminal Server for Home Media PCs

“So I bought this new AOpen Pandora box (yes–a beige box Mac
Mini ripoff). I got a Pentium M 1.73GHz and 512Mb of RAM. It comes
with a DVD Reader/CDRW and I didn’t buy a harddisk or anything
else. My goal was to run a single terminal server for all the Media
PCs in my apartment (I have 1 in the living room & 1 in the
bedroom… thinking of putting one in the bathroom).

“I figured my main computer can be the Terminal Server, but as I
started building it I realized that building an i386 client image
on an AMD64 box was an utter pain (the script that generated it
complained all the time, even after I hardcoded my arch values into
it). So I figured I will just create it inside VMWare running a
i386. Luckily I had latest flight of Dapper there already…”

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