[VoIP] Asterisk on Wyse Diskless 941G "Thin" client terminal

[Donald Froula]

This model, a 941GXL, has a 1GHz processor, 1/2 Gbyte
of flash and 256 Mbyte of RAM. That should be enough
speed.

Don Froula

--- Don Wisdom <donw at engineeringinc.com> wrote:

> The wyse thin clients ive messed with were really
> lacking in the processor
> department.   They basically have enough processor
> to display the video that
> is sent to it from the Citrix server.   All those
> systems work in similar
> fashion to the old unix dumb terminals.  Basically
> that means that all the
> processing is done on the Citrix server and the
> video is put out on the thin
> client.   
> --Don
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On 9/9/07 6:26, "John Novack"
> <jnovack at stromberg-carlson.org> wrote:
> 
> > I have a similar HP 5515 with Linux already on the
> flash. It also was a
> > thin client for Citrix.
> > Unfortunately, at the moment I am not smart enough
> to go very far with it.
> > I am still having problems getting an ASUS router
> configured well enough
> > to run Asterisk.
> > John Jones and Paul Wills have successfully done
> that, but we had other
> > items to cover at the show and didn't get to the
> router configuration.
> > 
> > John Novack
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > Donald Froula wrote:
> >> I recemtly came by a new Wyse diskless 941G
> client
> >> terminal, loaded with Windows XPe. This is a
> diskless
> >> workstation that is designed to run server
> >> applications over VNC or Microsoft Citrix. It has
> a
> >> full complement of
> >>
> USB/parallel/serial/keyboard/monitor/audio/network
> >> ports.
> >> 
> >> The box has a single PCI slot. Plugged into one
> of the
> >> motherboard IDE slots is what looks like a flash
> >> memory module. There are no drives installed at
> all,
> >> although there are spots for a CDROM and floppy
> drive.
> >> It is preloaded with a few stand-alone apps, such
> as
> >> Internet Explorer and Media player. The BIOS
> appears
> >> to be standard Award BIOS.
> >> 
> >> This would make a very cool platform for Linux
> and
> >> Asterisk. Wyse makes Linux-based client
> terminals, but
> >> I'm not sure if their software would run on this
> >> Windows XPe box, or if Wyse Linux would have the
> tools
> >> necessary to compile Asterisk and Zaptel.
> >> 
> >> Any thoughts? Anyone tried this already?
> >> 
> >> Don
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