Which brings an idea into play... Would it be possible to create a useful telnet terminal that can do a number of things like in the old vms days. So you are presented with a simple menu like so:
1. email (don't need graphics for this one, just pine or mutt or something) 2. web (we use linx or lynx with a predefined set of eductational websites that are linx friendly) 3. irc (this one is relatively easy since its been around since the beginning of time) 4. exit to shell Might not be useful in all environments, but it would allow reuse of old old systems and bring a serious speedup to the network. If all a user wants is information or to send an email (often the case) we send them to one of these text only terminals.... David Van Assche On Sun, Sep 14, 2008 at 7:26 PM, Oliver Grawert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > hi, > On So, 2008-09-14 at 18:59 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> "Certainly, within some small spaces, we may be able to optimize >> things, but the >> bottom line is, that old 486 with 16 megs of memory simply isn't >> going to work >> as a thin client any more." >> >> Of course an old 486 with 16 m ram will work as a thin client!! you > sadly the 2.6.xx kernels need about 32M to uncompress and load the > intramfs alone ... 8.10 will solve a bit of that, booting 24M might be > possible with inrepid ibex ... > > 486 CPUs shouldnt be any prob though as long as you install > linux-image-i386 in the client environment ... > > :) > > indeed thats nothing to do serious stuff with beyond telnetting or > running a shell driven database frontend ... > > ciao > oli > > > > -- > edubuntu-users mailing list > [email protected] > Modify settings or unsubscribe at: > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/edubuntu-users > > -- edubuntu-users mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/edubuntu-users
