During the latest edition #85 of John Troyer’s VMware Communities Roundtable there was a little discussion about using a Linux host as a view client. I’ve discovered a nice little live CD from Thinstation which has the VMware View Open Client 4.0 built-in and it only needs a minimum amount of hardware resources. I don’t know if VMware is planning to release a Linux View Agent but it would be really great for a Linux end to end environment.
Thinstation is a basic and small yet very powerful Open Source "thin client" operating system and some programs which make it possible to connect to servers via a network. Thinstation is mainly intended for office, company or department use. Being a private individual with just one PC you will have little use for Thinstation.
Thinstation is based on Linux, but users may actually never see Linux at all if you decide to connect directly to a Microsoft Windows server, a Citrix server or a Unix server! The user will feel he/she connects directly to the server. But if you want to, you can have a Linux interface - a blackbox or icewm window manager to be exact.
