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Welcome to the Thinstation wiki!

Thinstation is a basic and small, yet very powerful, Open Source "thin client" operating system supporting all major connectivity protocols: Citrix ICA, NoMachine NX, 2X ThinClient, Microsoft Windows terminal services (RDP, via RDesktop), VMWare View Open client, Cendio ThinLinc, Tarantella, X, telnet, tn5250, VMS terminal and SSH. No special configuration of the application servers is needed to use Thinstation.

Thinstation is mainly intended for schoolroom, office, company or department use, but can be used at home (eg. for a silent PC in the bedroom that 'runs' XP on your workstation in the back room).

Whilst Thinstation is based on Linux, users may actually never see Linux at all. If you decide to connect directly to a Microsoft Windows, Citrix or Unix server, the user will feel that they are running directly on the server. But, you can also have a local Desktop interface with a local Browser and other tools.

Thinstation supports a Microsoft Windows-only environment and REQUIRES NO UNIX/Linux KNOWLEDGE.

Thinstation runs on ordinary PC hardware (32/64 bit i686 class). You may either reuse older computers or save a lot of time on workstation administration. Or both! An old Pentium-II with 128 MB RAM or better can be a perfectly useful workstation. And you don't need a hard disk. You can boot off the network and even have a silent workstation. Workstation devices (floppy/HD/CD/USB) and printers (LPT/USB) are supported.

Thinstation can be booted from network using PXE or from a local floppy/CD/HD/flash-disk. Prebuilt images and a Live CD are available. The thin client configuration can be local or centralized to simplify management.

The latest stable release is version 5.4 Please be aware that not all docs in this wiki have been updated yet but all basic concepts apply.

To learn more about Thinstation, please

• review Getting Started with Thinstation,
• read the FAQ,
• look at the FAQ + (Common Questions & Answers),
• search through the thinstation-general mailing list archive and even subscribe to participate.