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Thinstation is a basic and small, yet very powerful, Open Source "thin client" operating system supporting all major connectivity protocols: Citrix ICA, NoMachine NX, 2X ThinClient, Microsoft Windows terminal services (RDP, via RDesktop), VMWare View Open client, Cendio ThinLinc, Tarantella, X, telnet, tn5250, VMS terminal and SSH (No special configuration of the application servers is needed to use Thinstation).
Thinstation is mainly intended for schoolroom, office, company or department use, but can be used at home (eg. for a silent PC in the bedroom that 'runs' XP on your workstation in the back room).
Whilst Thinstation is based on Linux, users may actually never see Linux at all. If you decide to connect directly to a Microsoft Windows, Citrix or Unix server, the user will feel that they are running directly on the server. But, you can also have a local Desktop interface (with a local Browser & other tools).
Thinstation supports a Microsoft Windows-only environment and REQUIRES NO UNIX/Linux KNOWLEDGE.
Thinstation runs on ordinary PC hardware (x86). You may either reuse older computers or save a lot of time on workstation administration. Or both! An old Pentium 100 MHz with 32 MB RAM or better can be a perfectly useful workstation. And you don't need a hard disk - you can boot off the network and even have a silent workstation. Workstation devices (floppy/HD/CD/USB) and printers (LPT/USB) are supported.
Thinstation can be booted from network (e.g. diskless) using Etherboot/PXE or from a local floppy/CD/HD/flash-disk, and Prebuilt images and a Live CD are available. The thin client configuration can be local or centralized to simplify management.
The latest stable release is version 2.2.2 (ChangeLog)
To learn more about Thinstation, please
- read the FAQ,
- look at the FAQ + (Common Questions & Answers),
- explore the Community Portal, and
- search through the thinstation-general mailing list archive and even subscribe to participate.
Thinstation is hosted on sourceforge.net, where:
- we have four mailing lists you can subscribe to (announcements, general, portuguese and developers)
- this wiki and trackers, etc.
- downloads of
- a fully configurable Linux build environment, (install instructions)
- contributed packages, patches and drivers, and
- the source for all Open Source components.
A number of our members have contributed their own servers to host additional items like:
- pre-compiled images and LiveCDs,
- proprietary drivers and packages that can not be hosted on sourceforge, and
- our Web based build farms (TS-O-Matic).
News
11 May, 2009
Francis Souyri has put together a package for Firefox 3 under Thinstation 2.2x (& 2.3).
It includes updates to a number of packages and libraries and is bundled as one package. Individual packages for GTK-2.0, atk, cairo, pango & pixman will also be made available.
24 March, 2009
Well, we have been doing things, but not putting much here.....
Those who have been watching the lists will know that 2.4alpha1 has been released with major upgrades to the platform, but it's still got a long way to go. So come along and help...
Updating the wiki is progressing and I'm adding some of the longtime missing developer documentation. We could really do with some help on defining 'Usage Scenarios' and the associated working configurations (see the Configuration Examples pages).
28 October,2008
We have finally put the Thinstation WIKI back up.
There are still quite a few items missing, but we have a number of older documents available and will extract anything of use that we can.
In the meantime, feel free to populate the Community Portal with anything you think is useful to other Thinstation users. (I haven't worked out how to allow anonymous updates yet, so you probably need to have a sourceforge login and ask to be given edit permissions......)
We have lost a bit of the news as well.....
Help on using the Wiki
Consult the User's Guide for information on using the wiki software.
