Terminal Services & Thin Clients
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- 2X ThinClientServer PXES edition - "2X ThinClientServer PXES edition makes the move to thin client computing easy by delivering a solution to convert existing PCs to thin clients and centrally manage thin client devices from any vendor (HP, Neoware, Wyse, Maxspeed and more).
User's connection & device hardware settings (RDP / NX, screen size, Applications that users have access to, Terminal Servers and VMware virtual desktops) can be controlled centrally by device, user, group or department (Active Directory / LDAP) via the web based interface.
2X ThinClientServer PXES edition is the next generation of PXES 1.0, the popular free Linux thin client OS. The new version of PXES incorporates the Linux thin client OS, and also includes a server to allow for central configuration & management of the thin clients. 2X ThinClientServer PXES edition is the free version of 2X ThinClientServer. This commercial version also supports connecting to Citrix servers. The PXES edition can connect to Windows Terminal services servers (RDP) and NX terminal servers. The PXES edition does not include support, however user to user support is available via the 2X forums." - ThinStation - "Thinstation is a thin client Linux distribution that makes a PC a full-featured thin client supporting all major connectivity protocols: Citrix ICA, NoMachine NX, 2X ThinClient, MS Windows terminal services (RDP), Cendio ThinLinc, Tarantella, X, telnet, tn5250, VMS term and SSH." "Thinstation also supports a MS Windows-only environment and REQUIRES NO UNIX/Linux KNOWLEDGE (but it doesn't harm :-)."

