Moreover, the thin-client design helps to insulate your application development investment from future operating system changes (on the client side). This benefit is attributed to two factors.

Emerging client virtualization technologies such as operating system streaming, remote operating system boot, application streaming and virtual containers need to deliver a cost effective desktop ...

Lenovo’s ThinkCentre M73 thin client offers customers a choice of a flexible Linux-based thin client operating system (LeTOS) or Windows Embedded Standard 7.

In addition, there is no guest operating system to add to the base operating system installed on the client. This may not always matter--depending upon volume licensing agreements and the like.

This enables the host operating system, which is optional, and the VMM to run simultaneously with the client operating systems. The VMM traps the client operating systems' access to the hardware.

When Apple released Mac OS X 10.7, known as Lion, it became the first client version of Mac OS X that Apple gave express permission to run as a guest operating system within a virtual machine.

Those early forecasts Based upon the rapid growth seen back in 1994 (Linux server operating system shipments grew almost 200 percent and Linux client operating system shipments grew almost 100 ...

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Thin-client makers ride Linux bandwagon Among those embracing the open-source operating system is a manufacturer that had previously rejected the penguin.