SAN FRANCISCO--Thin is in again, at least for a spell, as hardware makers use Linux to sell companies on the idea of forsaking full-fledged PCs in favor of stripped-down "thin clients." In the 1990s, ...

Thin clients are the kind of hardware that should be a home labber’s open secret, but somehow still feels like insider baseball. They are cheap, quiet, and usually built to last years in the office ...

Car hire firm Europcar International has migrated thousands of PCs across Europe from Windows fat clients to Linux thin clients, lowering both its hardware and maintenance costs. The car hire firm has ...

I've got a client that has some older machines (P2's, 64-128M of RAM). they currently run NT4 and are a pain in the ass to deal with. The machines are basically just used as Microsoft terminal service ...

Previously I ran Linux on my secondary PC and used it as a place to host VMs. I have since moved to running ESXi on it, and am continuing to host VMs there. So the monitor is now doing nothing since ...

As industry talk swirls around Linux desktops versus Windows desktops, Neoware, a leading provider of thin clients, unveiled this week a $199 appliance that runs both. The Capio One uses Citrix ICA, ...

Wyse Technology has released a new version of Linux for its thin client terminals, and a new terminal to run it. Wyse Linux version 6 and the Winterm 5150SE are intended for what executives at the San ...

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As industry talk swirls around Linux desktops vs. Windows desktops, Neoware Systems, a leading provider of thin clients, this week unveiled a $199 appliance that runs both. As industry talk swirls ...