Diskless Remote Boot in Linux: Difference between revisions

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'''Hybrid Client'''

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_clienthybrid 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 (i.e. [[video games]]). Hybrid clients run the software locally, and as such, do not have this problem.

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The main chokepoint in a DRBL installation is between the storage on the DRBL server, and the client workstation. Fast storage on the server (RAID), and a fast network (Gigabit Ethernet), are ideal in this type of environment.

==External Resourcesresources==

* [http://drbl.sourceforge.net/ DRBL]

* [http://www.clonezilla.org/ Clonezilla]

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