Diskless Remote Boot in Linux: Difference between revisions

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An excellent way to make use of old hardware. Using old hardware as [[Thin Clients]] is a good solution, but has some disadvantages that a [[hybrid_client|Hybrid Client]] can make up for.

* Streaming Audio/Video - A [[Terminal Server]] must decompress, recompress, and send video over the network to the client. A Hybrid does all decompression locally, and can make use of any graphics hardware capabilities on the local machine.

* Software that requires real-time input - Since all input at a [[thin client]] is sent over the network before it is registered by the operating system, there can be substantial delay. This is a major problem in software that requires real-time input (ei.ge. [[video games]]). Hybrid clients run the software locally, and as such, do not have this problem.

DRBL allows you to set up multiple [[Hybrid Clients]] with relative ease.