[Pim had written:]
> > Think about it, a 500MB IDE harddrive to install FreeBSD, OpenBSD, Debian
> > Linux or whatever else on costs close to nothing. If I wanted a Unix
> > machine to do that task, I'd go and build one and wouldn't bother with
> > things like LRP. As a 'consumer', I go for LRP because I specifically
> > _don't_ want a "flexible, can do anything" solution, but a "stick it in,
> > configure it, stop worrying" one.
Charles Steinkuehler wrote:
> This may be the core difference between David's Oxygen and what I'm trying
> to do, and is at least one reason why I think both flavors can flourish (and
> likely even build off of each other).
Here was the vision I had when I started looking at floppy-based
Linux, and thinking of what I could find and how I would modify LRP:
Joe Manager comes and says, there's some funny activity on the network
in SoSo Department. Can you check it out?
So I bring my floppy disks along (three maybe) and head over to an
unused PC in SoSo Department, and turn it on. After loading these
diskettes into the hopelessly overpowered Pentium 1Ghz with 256M RAM,
I start watching the network for problems with tcpdump, nmap, ngrep,
etc.
...or...
A corporate type is looking for a firewall, but can't justify a Cisco
for their 20-employee company. So they pull that 486 out of the
closet and get the IT staff (all one of them) to use it for a
firewall.
...or...
Fred Manager comes and says, My system won't boot anymore... so you
trot over there with a single disk in hand, and boot with the floppy
using the network to load additional packages. Then using them, you
restore the damaged boot sector, and have a happy employee again and
back at work.
...or...
Mr. Linux Guy (not Guru, just Guy :-) wants a router for his home, so
he pulls out the two different 486es he has, makes one a DHCP/BIND
server, and the other a dialup router with dialin capabilities and two
lines and a VPN.... all the while learning as he goes, and getting
very useful knowledge.
...or...
Michael Techie WantsToSeeLinux comes to you and says What's Linux
Like? So you bring out your floppy, reboot his Windows PC, and show
him what you can do with it. Then you bring up vnc on it (for the
frame buffer) and show him your Linux desktop on the other side of the
network.
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