PC Peripherals Want to hack a thin client and use it as a diskless machine for browsing ?

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abhijeet

Disciple
Hi ,
I am saw lot of thin clients available for sale on ebay.in . Had a thought of converting one of these to a browsing machine.
Is is possible. ?
Some of the thin clients use AMD geode or ARM 11 processors and have around 256 MB of RAM .
Can we reflash /format the flash disks and use the thin clients for browsing and as a download rig. ?
Has some one among done this experiment ?
-Abhijeet

Did not find the correct forum to put this question/ query. If I have posted in wrong forum please let me know.


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[url]http://www.ebay.in/itm/NEW-THIN-CLIENT-PC-NC600-W-THINCLIENT-WIFI-3-USB-PORT-XP-WIN7-LINUX-WARRANTY-/320930217022?pt=IN_Desktop_PCs&hash=item4ab8ee7c3e
http://www.ebay.in/itm/HP-THIN-CLIENT-T5725-/110875413262?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_203&hash=item19d0b08b0e#ht_500wt_927[/URL]
 
Not sure about the first model but the HP thin client comes with 512MB of flash storage.So theoretically you should be able to run any x86 OS as long as it is lightweight.
The HP one already comes with a Debian based linux distribution so it is possible
 
Would suggest to go for the ones with 2/4GB of NAND. The main advantage being that the number of distri's that can be installed is much more.
 
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