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News
Dec 2019
ThinStation 6.2.3 released
This should be a stable base for 64 bit systems.
Jun 2016
ThinStation 5.5 released
4 August 2014
ThinStation 5.2.3 released
As usual you get it from here: http://sourceforge.net/projects/thinstation/files/thinstation/thinstation-5/ or from git.
History
6 May 2012
ThinStation 5.1 released
Donald Cupp Jr has been busy and has ironed out kinks and polishing the beautiful vehicle ThinStation, and he proudly presents ThinStation-5.1.
10 February 2012
ThinStation 5.0 released
After about a year of development ThinStation 5.0 - the successor to ThinStation 2.2.2 - has been released today. During its development program ThinStation 5.0 has been known as version 2.5, but as the entire code base is new, the developers wanted to part from the 2.x series branding. So we decided to stick to the the "5" in "2.5" and here is version 5.0.
ThinStation 5.0 is based on Crux Linux 2.7 code, but the user front end is very much the same as previously, i.e. it still uses build.conf and thinstation.conf*. There are of course some new things to learn (2.2.x is more than five years old) but the soul and spirit is all the same.
However, this is new times and there are new requirements: A simple build requires 64 MB RAM and an i686 class processor is required. This is 16 year old technology, any CPU post 2003 works and almost any post 1996 does.
For package developers ThinStation 5.0 is great news. It is so easy now to add own packages or modify existing ones thanks to the standardized Crux code base.
The number of packages updated are *way* to extensive to mention, but on most bases we have 2011/2012 versions of everything, including Linux kernel 3.2 and xorg7.
So, have fun and enjoy ThinStation 5.0.
The ThinStation crew.
11 January 2012
The TS-2.2.2 series has served us well since late 2008 and now it is time for the final minor revision, TS-2.2.2i. The future belongs to TS-2.5 which is well into its RC-series by now.
18 October, 2011
Now we are at beta4 and "soon" there will some RCs. So it's now we need feedback. The build procedure in TS-2.5 is slightly different from TS-2.2.2 series.
28 September, 2011
Exciting news! ThinStation-2-5 beta1 is out. It's a complete rewrite of TS but still true to the TS core values and most administrating parts are the same. A new thing is that you get the source together with the distro, so it's a 390 MB download (the final version will be the distro only and the source optionally). Unpack the bz2 file, run ./setup-chroot. Actually you have to run ./setup-chroot twice, but you are instructed. Next go to ts/2.5 and things will look more or less familiar.
Have fun and supply feedback! Feedback is very important.
28 June, 2011
ThinStation 2.2.2h has been released. A minor bugfix release of the 2.2.2 series. Among the highligths: rdesktop 1.7.0 and Firefox 5.0.
10 May, 2011
LiveCD versions of ThinStation 2.2.2g available now.
3 March, 2011
ThinStation 2.2.2g has been released. As you can guess from the version number, it's minor maintenance release where updated RDP clients (SVN version of rdesktop and FreeRDP 0.8.2) is the highlight:
7 November, 2010
ThinStation 2.2.2f has been released. Well, the release of ThinStation-2.2.2e triggered an interesting sequence of contributions that we have found so interesting, that we kill off 2.2.2e and release 2.2.2f.
Most important is that now the keyboard is fully working with international keyboards and FreeRDP! That's worth a release by itself. But also other important fixes and updates are included: snd-hda-intel seems to work for the first time, a bug for z-org6-intel ironed out, Windows codepage 1252 added for ICA etc.
1 November, 2010
ThinStation 2.2.2e has been released. As you may guess from the version number this is only a small update and bug fix release. Nothing major. But as for any star a face lift is needed once in a while :-)
16 August, 2010
New VMware LiveCDs based on ThinStation-2.2.2d and Open View 4.5.0b2.1 available as torrents on the usual page: http://thinstation.org/LiveCD/
11 April, 2010
ThinStation-2.2.2d has been released. A few bugs has been ironed out and a few minor features added.
2 March, 2010
ThinStation-2.2.2b has been released. Version 2.2.2b is a maintenance release of 2.2.2, which means it is ver. 2.2.2 plus patches and bug fixes. Besides this a few additions have been made mainly to cosmetics.' Update:' A glitch has bumbed the version to 2.2.2c.
19 January, 2010
A New Canadian TS-O-Matic site has become alive thanks to redeemer.ca. Now the TS-O-Matic build farm consists of:
TS-O-Matic is the unique ThinStation way of making a custom binary image of ThinStation without having a Linux installation yourself.
11 May, 2009
Francis Souyri has put together a package for Firefox 3 under ThinStation 2.2x (& 2.3).
It includes updates to a number of packages and libraries and is bundled as one package. Individual packages for GTK-2.0, atk, cairo, pango & pixman will also be made available.
24 March, 2009
Well, we have been doing things, but not putting much here.....
Those who have been watching the lists will know that 2.4alpha1 has been released with major upgrades to the platform, but it's still got a long way to go. So come along and help...
Updating the wiki is progressing and I'm adding some of the longtime missing developer documentation. We could really do with some help on defining 'Usage Scenarios' and the associated working configurations (see the Configuration Examples pages).
28 October,2008
We have finally put the ThinStation WIKI back up.
There are still quite a few items missing, but we have a number of older documents available and will extract anything of use that we can.
In the meantime, feel free to populate the Community Portal with anything you think is useful to other ThinStation users. (I haven't worked out how to allow anonymous updates yet, so you probably need to have a sourceforge login and ask to be given edit permissions......)
We have lost a bit of the news as well.....
13-Oct-2007
Marcos Amorim has produced an snmp client package for ThinStation. It's available from the sourceforge download site under ThinStation packages contrib for ThinStation 2.2 (but also works for 2.2.1).
3-Oct-2007
A note from Technical gs to the developers list that we thought we'd like to share with you... DEAR DEVELOPERS AND ALL THE CONTRIBUTORY TO THIN STATION...... ITS ABOUT TWO YEARS SINCE OUR SCHOOL NETWORK IS RUNNING ON THIN CLIENT TECHNOLOGY BY THINSTATION CONSISTING OF ABOUT 150 TERMINALS. ITS LINUX PLATFORM - UBUNTU LINUX SERVER ON SERVER SIDE - WORKING ALL 24 HOURS * 365 DAYS. ON BEHALF OF ALL STUDENTS, TEACHERS I CONGRATULATE EVERYONE FOR THEIR SUCCESSFUL EFFORTS WITHOUT WHICH OUR SCHOOL COULD NOT HAVE GIVEN THE VITAL IT EDUCATION ( ITS FREE OF CHARGE ) TO ALL THE STUDENTS. AS A IMPLEMENTOR OF THINSTATION, I ALSO HAVE NOT CHARGED ANYTHING. LONG LIVE THINSTATION.
23-Sep-2007
Firefox 2.0.0.6 is now available for ThinStation as a contributed package for the 2.2 series. Just look in thinstation package contribs > thinstation packages 2.2 on the sourceforge download site.
5-Sep-2007
Sick and tired of the original OS in IGEL Winestra 416 thin clients? Well, here is how to change it to ThinStation (In German).
Oh, you want to run ThinStation on your Netvista. No problem (In English).
23-Aug-2007
The Swedish IDG magazine Techworld recently had a review of ThinStation (in Swedish). They were fairly happy about ThinStation and thought TS-O-Matic was "almost painfully simple", if my Swedish understanding is correct ;-) Final rating: PRO: "Easy installation, great flexibility". CON: "Nothing in particular".
18-Aug-2007
The poll "Which SESSION_0 type is most important for you? " is closed. See the results.
3-Jun-2007
The TS-O-Matics now speak French and Portuguese too.
15-Apr-2007
ThinStation has gotten an IRC channel. Come visit us at #thinstation on irc.freenode.net. Please character encode into iso-8859-15. As this is a new service, don't expect a lot of trafic
- before you create it yourself! :-)
7-Feb-2007
The highly regarded German computer magazine C't has a very comprehensive presentation of ThinStation in its third issue 2007, page 202. It's four full, ad-free pages in color, and a very careful walk-through on setting up ThinStation.
6-Dec-2006
More contribs! This time Patrick Rock has contributed the elinks text web browser for both ThinStation 2.1.3 and ThinStation 2.2. Get it from the download page.
2-Dec-2006
A little something to make time until Christmas pass... Mike has contributed conky, a system and performance monitor for ThinStation 2.2. Not very useful, but nice to look at. A picture says more than a 1000 words, so look for yourself: image
4-Nov-2006
Ludo Kleinholte has written a new document on Building ThinStation under coLinux on your Windows box.
3-Nov-2006
The prebuilts of ThinStation ver. 2.2 are here. A LiveCD and and a netboot prebuilt is ready for your download pleasure (see the download section). Thanks to Paolo for the effort!
19-Oct-2006
New TS-O-Matic mirror: Gerrie Brokke, The Netherlands, has opened a new TS-O-Matic mirror for the pleasure for all of you. Go visit it at http://tsom.retail-ict.nl/. We could still use a mirror in Asia and in North America...
17-Oct-2006
Our sponsor 2X has good news again:
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16-Oct-2006
YAHOOO! Hold your horses. ThinStation 2.2 is here!
Finally, ThinStation 2.2 was released today. It took a while since ver. 2.1.3 as Miles decided (actually his wife did ;-) to get a baby in the middle of the process! Now the second baby is here: Linux kernel 2.6.16.5 (the kernel of the real, first baby is custom), X.org 6.9.0, Firefox 1.5, ICA client ver. 9, rdesktop client ver. 1.5, unionFS, NoMachine NX client, Cendio Thinlinc client, 2X ApplicationServer client, USB support, client side sound, printing, storage... the lot! Grap it on the download page. Expect the TS-O-Matics to catch up during the week. Original announcement.