Thin Client Media Center

I tested to run XBMC via XDMCP. The very loud test laptop becomes almost completly silent.

I have no sound and no remote. Sound is fixable from what I understand. USB / Remote could be a problem.

I would like to do some work on this.

Possible solutions:

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuLTSP

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/FreeNX

Both supports sound and USB port mapping(?). 

Another solution with be to use network booting. However, I think the problem is CPU heat not HD.

The first step would be to isolate HD heat/noise from CPU by boot from USB.