Xterm / LTSP whats the difference 1

[Teknoratti]

I am a little above a novice user, but I wouldn't say intermediate yet. I would like to know the differences in Xterm and LTSP. Aren't they both packages that you configure to connect low level pc's or thin clients to servers? I am reading on LTSP now.

Can anyone explain?

Thanks

 

[AdaHacker]

Xterm doesn't really have any relation to LTSP. The Linux Terminal Server Project is concerned with building a network of diskless thin clients that can access a graphical user interface. Xterm, on the other hand, is simply a terminal emulator. In the context of a graphical UNIX or Linux system, the term "terminal emulator" simply refers to a graphical program that allows you to access a command line interface, roughly analogous to cmd.exe in Windows. As such, xterm is not concerned with connecting to any other computers. That's handled by other software.

 

[jstreich]

term (not xterm) and minicom also allow you to do serial connections to run thin clients -- but you'd have to play with them a bit to get them to work... where as with LTSP, you have less to do to get up and running.

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