Thin Client

[tmcneill]

I set up TC for a customer for use as a Thin Client on an old machine.  I had previously used ThinStation for this.  It worked very well after getting my settings to save.

I wish I had time to put together a a TC remaster that would TFTP download the configuration based on the MAC address.

Another idea I had would be to integrate something like Google Drive using https://github.com/astrada/google-drive-ocamlfuse On boot it could prompt for the sign in credentials and then your settings could follow you and your documents would be online.

[gerald_clark]

TC can netboot using a PXE server.
The server can have config files by MAC.
Please read the wiki http://wiki.tinycorelinux.net/wiki:netbooting

[tmcneill]

Very nice.  That would be a very inexpensive set up using the ARM based systems.

Also I see there is a drop box client.  I will look into using it to store settings and documents.

[andyj]

You can even have TC be the boot server. I did this using TC in a VM on an ESX server. The clients had no local storage, they were RAM only, and booting took just 90 seconds from power on through POST, PXE boot, downloading extensions, starting X, touch screen calibration, to application running.