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== Hardware ==
== Hardware ==
You could buy a [http://www.newegg.com/ProductSort/CategoryIntelligence.asp?Subcategory=3 barebones system], very inexpensively ([http://www.newegg.com/ProductSort/Subcategory.asp?Subcategory=3&name=Barebone-Computers $100 - $300] at the time of writing) but the fan is still a potential failure point that can be avoided by going with a true thin client.  Also, as the name implies, the barebones system will normally need additional components to make a complete system.  For example, you'll still need to at least buy a screen, keyboard and mouse.  
You could buy a [http://www.newegg.com/ProductSort/CategoryIntelligence.asp?Subcategory=3 barebones system], very inexpensively ([http://www.newegg.com/ProductSort/Subcategory.asp?Subcategory=3&name=Barebone-Computers $100 - $300] at the time of writing) but the fan is still a potential failure point that can be avoided by going with a true thin client.  Also, as the name implies, the barebones system will normally need additional components to make a complete system.  For example, you'll still need to at least buy a screen, keyboard and mouse.  
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== Do It Yourself ==
== Do It Yourself ==
Although dated 2005, here is an [http://wiki.ltsp.org/twiki/bin/view/Ltsp/HowIDidIt article] on how one person built their own LTSP system]
Although dated 2005, here is an [http://wiki.ltsp.org/twiki/bin/view/Ltsp/HowIDidIt article] on how one person built their own LTSP system]
== More Info ==
# [http://www.edubuntu.org/news/7.04-release Edubuntu Info and Tour]
# [http://www.xbox-linux.org/wiki/Xbox_Versions_HOWTO Version info] (the older the better).
# [https://help.ubuntu.com/community/LTSPServerSetup Thin Client Server Setup]
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