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Hi:
We replaced all of our 3477 Terminals last year with homegrown
ThinClients and it's been working great. Many thanks to Scott and
others.
I know you said you didn't want a gui, but our ThinClients use a gui
(X) and boot right into a green screen at startup, just like a terminal,
except it takes a little longer.
Here's what we used:
Hardware: ASUS EB1007 eeeBox PC bolted onto the back of a 4:3
FlatScreen Monitor
OS: FreeBSD B1 8.2-RELEASE FreeBSD 8.2-RELEASE #0
5250 Software: tn5250 0.17.4 (xt5250)
X Server: X.Org X Server 1.7.7
Everything is installed on a 4Gb Compact Flash card, and the root of
the OS is read only. Things like /tmp and /var, are loaded as memory
drives. We don't have to worry about the cards getting burnt out from
too many writes, and we don't have to worry about the abuse the software
might take out on the floor. Users can power it off and on, and we don't
have to worry about corruption.
We did have to do a fair bit of customizing, (both to X and
tn5250/xt5250) but we've got something that works great.
Regards,
Fred
On Tue, 24 Apr 2012 16:01:47 -0400, Jonathan Burishkin
<gypsumwolf@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I need to set up some tn5250 terminals at work; I prefer them to boot
straight into the green screen, no gui. What linux distro and
configuration
is best for this?
I have been using Lubuntu 11.10 32bit with IBM iSeriesAccess and have
some
lost connection issues with the software. I would like to see how
tn5250
works.
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