Thinux Feature List

A

Supported Processors

x86: VIA C3, C7, Eden, Nano. Intel Atom N, D, Z series

ARM: TI OMAP3530, 3503. Marvell Kirkwood Series

B

Supported Chipsets

VIA CLE266, CN700, CX700, CX700M2, VX800, VN896

Intel 945GSE, 945GC, NM10

C

Display

DDC – Display Data Control for automatic selection of resolution

2D and 3D Acceleration. XvMC for in-chipset decoding of MPEG2 and MPEG4 videos

Touchscreens from 3M, eGalax, Elo, and others, with calibration and instant touch support

D

Storage and Boot

IDE and SATA Flash

USB flash drives, SD card readers

Network boot through PXE

E

USB Peripheral Support

USB serial and parallel cables

USB webcam

USB headset and sound

USB network device support – Ethernet, WiFi and broadband

USB VGA/DVI adaptor support

Bluetooth dongles

USB touchscreen support

USB keyboard, mouse, joystick

F

Printing

Built-in support for a large variety of printers, including all commonly used printers.

Supports Samsung ML and SCX series (SPL2 and SPLc), Lexmark 1000 series, Konica Minolta laser printers, HP M1005 (XQX), Lexmark C500n (SLX), Samsung CLP series (QPDL), HP Laserjet 1500 (OAKT), HP2600n, Oki, etc.

Printing from local applications like web browser

Support for adding of printer driver files through the management interface

IP based remote printing through RDP, LPD and SMB

F

Others

5.1 channel audio support

Hardware monitoring support – temperature, voltage, fan speed

IR remote control through Serial, USB and CIR dongles

Active power conservation through processor frequency scaling, turning off peripherals, etc.

NETWORKING

A

Protocol Support

TCP/IP v4 and v6

DHCP and DNS client

NTP and rdate client – remote date synchronisation

B

Wired Networking

Wake on LAN

Ethernet Autosensing

C

Wireless Networking

WiFi – 802.11b, g and n

WEP, WPA, WPA2 support

RADIUS support

Both Ad-hoc and infrastructure modes supported

D

Broadband and WAN

USB modem support – POTS, DSL, GPRS, CDMA, 3G, WiMax

PPP and PPPoE

VPN support – IPSec, PPTP, SSL

SOFTWARE

A

OS Features

Embedded Linux firmware. System can be switched off any time without proper shutdown.

System state can reset remotely or at boot time

Stateless system – state storage can be centralised

Local and remote upgrade of firmware

B

Core Components

Linux Kernel

2.6.35

Coreutils

8.5

X11R7

1.9.5

C

Remote Management

Web based remote management system built into the firmware of all thin clients.

Management system can be used locally through browser, or remotely from any computer in the network

Single or clustered management of thin clients. Most actions can be applied to a set of thin clients collectively.

Automatic discovery of thin clients in the LAN or WAN

Remote upgrade of firmware through web interface

Remotely enable and disable hardware such as pen drives

Cloning of settings from one thin client to many thin clients

Remote shutdown, wake-on-lan, reboot

Remote network configuration

Session mirroring through VNC

Remote configuration of local and network file systems

Remote configuration of printers, system time, firewall

Execution of arbitrary Linux commands, remotely through web interface or SSH console. File transfer through web interface, SCP, FTP.

Plugin based architecture for future expansion as per customer needs

Task scheduling for unattended upgrades, other administrative tasks

D

GUI Features

Desktop and kiosk modes

Support for saving files on the Desktop and in folders

Automatic mounting of removable drives

Customisation of boot and desktop background as per customer needs

E

File System Support

Microsoft – DOS, FAT32, NTFS

Linux – Ext2, Ext3, Ext4

SMB and CIFS, client and server

NFSv3 and NFSv4, client and server

Mounting of FTP and SSH trees

F

Remote Monitoring

Comprehensive remote monitoring system with continuous graphing of important system parameters

Monitor disk performance and usage, network traffic, network connections, system temperature and voltages, processor utilisation and number of processes running, memory usage, uptime, time synchronisation, etc.

New parameters can be monitored as per customer needs

Monitor specific process – such as number of browser sessions

Remote and local logging. Centralised log processing.

SNMP support with MIB extensions

v1, v2c, v3

Support for centralised monitoring software such as Nagios

APPLICATIONS

A

Multimedia Support

CD Digital Audio

DVD playback with navigation menus

Video CDs

Video codecs: H.263, H.264/MPEG-4 AVC, MJPEG, MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4 Part 2, RealVideo, Sorenson, Theora, WMV

Audio codecs: AAC, AC3, AMR, DTS, FLAC, MP3, RealAudio, Speex, Vorbis, WMA

Protocols: RTP, RTSP, HTTP, FTP, MMS

Streaming video – transmission, playback and recording

Local web camera and TV tuner support

Music player with library organisation

B

Office Applications

OpenOffice.Org

3.3

Spreadsheet, Word processor, Presentation, Drawing, equation support

PDF Viewer

Image viewer – all popular image formats supported

C

Internet Applications

Skype, with webcam support

2.1.0

Videoconferencing with H.261 and Theora codecs

VoIP with SIP protocol; G.722, G.726, Speex, GSM and PCM codecs

Chat client with Yahoo!, MSN, Gtalk, Jabber and IRC support

D

Local Applications

Support for DOS applications through DOS emulator

Support for Win32 applications through Windows emulator

Support for Linux console applications, as well as GTK and QT GUI applications

Support for local databases – MySQL, Sybase Anywhere, Lotus Expeditor

Support for local web applications through Apache and LAMP stack

Support for local .NET applications through the Mono stack

THIN CLIENT PROTOCOLS

A

Remote Redisplay Clients

Citrix ICA client

11.x

RDP Client

RDP version 5¹

VMware View Client

4.5.x

VNC Client

XDMCP Client

NX Client

Graph-On Go Global

2.2.9

Remote Execution – RSH, SSH, telnet

B

Server Support

Windows Terminal Server

2003, 2008

Windows

XP, Vista, 7

Citrix XenApp, XenDesktop, Presentation Server

Red Hat Linux

4, 5, 6

Ubuntu Linux

All releases up to 11.04

Fedora Linux

All releases up to 14

VMware View

4.0

C

RDP Features

Automatic username and password

Seamless RDP

Numlock synchronisation

Compression and encryption

Selectable Bandwidth consumption

Serial and Parallel Port forwarding

Local disk forwarding

Local printer forwarding

Sound forwarding

Smart Card device forwarding

D

Cloud Computing Support

Mozilla Firefox

3.6.16, 4.0

Google Chrome

9.0

Adobe Reader

9.4.2

Adobe Flash Player

10.2.153

Sun Java Runtime Environment

1.6.0 u24

Embedded Multimedia Player

Archives – ZIP, ARJ, GZIP, BZIP2, ACE, CAB

E

Printing

Printer redirection in RDP and ICA

LPD server for Linux/UNIX printing

F

Others

Session sharing under ICA, VNC

Hot desking – Session migration from one thin client to another under RDP, ICA, VNC

Session view only support, for training and presentation purpose

Remote session management through management interface. Ability to copy sessions from one thin client to multiple thin clients, remotely.