6. Vendors of "Thin Clients"

• Diskless Workstations.com - a company that is supporting LTSP, selling hardware to allow constructing diskless Linux workstations.

• The Symbiont

  A complete diskless thin client solution based on LTSP

• Calibri-133 - Little Diskless Linux Box

  8MB "DiskOnChip" to hold software; about the size of a floppy drive.

• M-Systems - DiskOnChip 2000 stores up to 144MB of data on a reprogrammable chip

• Think NIC

  NIC stands for New Internet Computer; this represents a new release of the Network Computer concept from Oracle.

• Hack-a-NIC

  On things you can do with the NIC.

  Including:

  • Hacking the CD

  • Looking at what's on it.

    For instance, it runs the BOA webserver to provide Perl and ECMAScript services

  • Contributed "Hacks"

    Interestingly, the root password on these boxes is 4getit.

  • You can add a hard drive

  • BicNic

• Hack-a-NIC

• NICfit: enhancing the New Internet Computer

• NIC computer info & mp3 distribution

• Internet Appliance Hacking

• FreePad