Cloud vs ThinClient?

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Cloud vs ThinClient?

Post#1 by johnywhy » 29 Mar 2017, 17:33

hi

what's the difference between Cloud and ThinClient?

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Re: Cloud vs ThinClient?

Post#2 by fanthom » 29 Mar 2017, 21:00

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Re: Cloud vs ThinClient?

Post#3 by johnywhy » 29 Mar 2017, 22:37

hi, thx, yep, i've already seen those pages, but there's a lot of overlap.
it's unclear to me what the difference is.

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Re: Cloud vs ThinClient?

Post#4 by johnywhy » 30 Mar 2017, 01:31

it sounds from descriptions, that ThinClient does everything Cloud does, plus more network utils.

Is that correct?

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Re: Cloud vs ThinClient?

Post#5 by fanthom » 30 Mar 2017, 09:03

ThinClient depends on the server which you must configure while Cloud works mostly standalone.

See Wikipedia article:
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Re: Cloud vs ThinClient?

Post#6 by johnywhy » 30 Mar 2017, 21:25

fanthom wrote:ThinClient depends on the server which you must configure
Server is required? I was able to run ThinClient by itself, tho.

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