NewsForge: Linux Terminal Server Project Releases 4.2

“The Linux Terminal Server Project (LTSP), which makes it easy
to connect thin client terminals to a Linux server, announced the
4.2 release of the software at the LinuxWorld Conference &
Expo. The new release adds improved local device support, reduces
memory requirements, and offers scanner and multi-head support and
a 2.6 kernel.

“With improved local device support, users can plug in USB flash
drives or other devices which are read across the network and can
be used normally–just as if their thin client was a regular
desktop computer. Project leader Jim McQuillan says that the goal
of the project is to see to it that ‘people aren’t penalized for
using a thin client’ and that they can have the same type of
experience as a normal desktop machine…”

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