[ale] [somewhat OT] Fat thin client

Geoffrey esoteric at 3times25.net
Fri Aug 16 20:27:02 EDT 2002




Jeff Hubbs wrote:
> Fitting it all on a 200MB drive, *that's* what's wrong with Linux with
> tvm!

Slackware.

> 
> Also, I've found that new 72-pin SIMMs are expensive enough to make one
> wonder why one is bothering.  eBay time?

What?  Folks are nearly giving memory away.

> 
> I just recently tried putting Mandrake and Red Hat on small-drived
> machines and it's painful once you decide you want X.  You might think
> about borrowing a bigger drive, doing the install to that, making sure
> it works, then chop away stuff to fit in 200MB, and transfer the
> contents over.

Slackware.

> 
> At 16/32MB, the machine will be in severe pain over swap.  Couple low
> mem with 1-2MB/s disk I/O and...OW!  OW!
> 
> If nothing else, please get hold of a second drive to put on a second
> controller for swap use (I can help you out there - I've got a few - and
> I also have some extra ISA NICs).

I would agree with adding more disk space.

> 
> - Jeff
> 
> On Fri, 2002-08-16 at 14:16, Geoffrey wrote:
> 
>>What's wrong with Linux with twm?  A lightweight window manager with the 
>>menus for only those things she needs.  I set my mother-in-law up with a 
>>p200/96mb/1gig machine.  She uses sawfish/kde.
>>
>>You could go a similar route, but you might have to up the memory, which 
>>is real cheap these days.  Possibly more disk too, but you could squeeze 
>>the necessary stuff into 200mb.
>>
>>Jordi S. Bunster wrote:
>>
>>>Problem: My mother wants email, and does not want to mess neither with
>>>my brother's machine neither with my workstation, because we're always
>>>using them.
>>>
>>>I have some spare hardware here at home. P75, 16 or 32 megs, 200 mb
>>>harddisk. The problem is, I don't want to make it an X-Terminal to my
>>>workstation, because I don't have that much horsepower to serve her
>>>graphical applications and my Java development (it is already painful
>>>to develop Java2 on a P200 with 64 megs of ram). I'm also being the NAT
>>>router to the house. No way.
>>>
>>>What I wanted was a thin standalone machine, at least with the ability
>>>to run a decent graphical web-broswer. Decent enough for her to access a
>>>web-based mail client from my workstation, and thus read her alredy
>>>fecthmailed messages.
>>>
>>>I thought about FreeDOS and this Arachne graphical browser. Though its
>>>license seems a bit odd.
>>>
>>>Any suggestions? By the way, buying a NIC is out of question. With that
>>>money, I can buy her a computer faster than mine.
>>>
>>>-- Jsb
>>>
>>>
>>>
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>>
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