<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;">how about incliding the kdrive for this kind of machines it has a smaller memory foot print <br><br>--- On <b>Sun, 9/14/08, David Van Assche <i><dvanassche@gmail.com></i></b> wrote:<br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;">From: David Van Assche <dvanassche@gmail.com><br>Subject: Re: Minimum client expectations, LTSP Triage<br>To: "Oliver Grawert" <ogra@ubuntu.com><br>Cc: edubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com<br>Received: Sunday, September 14, 2008, 1:49 PM<br><br><pre>Which brings an idea into play... Would it be possible to create a<br>useful telnet terminal that can do a number of things like in the old<br>vms days. So you are presented with a simple menu like so:<br><br>1. email (don't need graphics for this one, just pine or mutt or something)<br>2. web (we use linx or lynx with a
predefined set of eductational<br>websites that are linx friendly)<br>3. irc (this one is relatively easy since its been around since the<br>beginning of time)<br>4. exit to shell<br><br>Might not be useful in all environments, but it would allow reuse of<br>old old systems and bring a serious speedup to the network. If all a<br>user wants is information or to send an email (often the case) we send<br>them to one of these text only terminals....<br><br>David Van Assche<br><br>On Sun, Sep 14, 2008 at 7:26 PM, Oliver Grawert <ogra@ubuntu.com> wrote:<br>> hi,<br>> On So, 2008-09-14 at 18:59 +0200, ltsp@infoux.com wrote:<br>>> "Certainly, within some small spaces, we may be able to optimize<br>>> things, but the<br>>> bottom line is, that old 486 with 16 megs of memory simply<br>isn't<br>>> going to work<br>>> as a thin client any more."<br>>><br>>> Of course an old 486 with 16 m ram will work as a
thin client!! you<br>> sadly the 2.6.xx kernels need about 32M to uncompress and load the<br>> intramfs alone ... 8.10 will solve a bit of that, booting 24M might be<br>> possible with inrepid ibex ...<br>><br>> 486 CPUs shouldnt be any prob though as long as you install<br>> linux-image-i386 in the client environment ...<br>><br>> :)<br>><br>> indeed thats nothing to do serious stuff with beyond telnetting or<br>> running a shell driven database frontend ...<br>><br>> ciao<br>> oli<br>><br>><br>><br>> --<br>> edubuntu-users mailing list<br>> edubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com<br>> Modify settings or unsubscribe at:<br>https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/edubuntu-users<br>><br>><br><br>-- <br>edubuntu-users mailing list<br>edubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com<br>Modify settings or unsubscribe
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