Windows Fundamentals is shipping!
Not sure if everyone here knows what Windows Fundamentals is. The codename Microsoft was using for it at the time was ‘Eiger’ and it is basically a stripped down, barebones Windows XP SP2 OS to be used on legacy PCs to turn them into thin clients. Unfortunately it is available only to Software Assurance customers.
If this was available to the general public, this would give Thinstation, PXES and similar solutions a run for their money.
The main benefit here is simple: it is Windows based so all the crap that does not work properly on Linux (and there are many things) do work properly on Eiger. Not to mention RDP6 support. 
Well I hope Microsoft will release this sometime soon to the general public. During the meantime I will try getting a copy to see how well it compares to the other solutions I mentioned.
Cheers!
Cláudio Rodrigues Says:
July 27th, 2006 at 11:29 am
Hi there. The best would be to use something like PXES (now part of 2X, http://www.2x.com/pxes). It is free and with it you can deploy/manage images running on these older computers.
Of course you will need a terminal server (I would recommend Windows 2003).
In case you do not want to use Windows at all you can use Linux as a Terminal Server. Take a look at http://www.ltsp.org.