On 05/23/2002 04:23 AM, did USM Bish write (doodah! doodah!):
> On Fri, May 24, 2002 at 10:05:56AM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>>I have donated my old 386 with 8MB/260MB Color Monitor to a
>>local Deaf & Dumb Charity Orgz.
> Indeed a noble thought ~Pat ... well done.
Yes, excellent thing you are doing, Pat.
> On this set up, the easiest would be to add in Netscape Gold
> or IE-3, if you still have some old 3.1 software lying around.
> I suppose, the kids would not be having any mailing require-
> ments.
Many websites nolonger work with 3.x versions of browsers. Better not
scrounge with the browser.
>>I am thinking of using Potato, which some claims, can be
>>cramped in below 150 MBs with all the bells-n-whistles of
>>email client/ browser etc.
I'm working on a similar project where my limit is 96M. I'm trying to
achieve this by:
1. Not having swap space
2. Having a compressed kernel (zImage)
3. Bare minimum system admin utilities
4. Having a minimum editor
5. Going with Abiword instead of Star/Open Offfice
6. Going with Opera / Mozilla
7. Configuring logrotate such that logs are not kept for more than a
couple of days.
8. Stripping all binaries.
> Just base system with only syslogd, klogd and sendmail daemons.
> Keep the system as simple as possible so that the kiddos need
> not even remember passwords. Just create users like tom, dick
> and harry and disable passwords with passwd -d <username>. You
> definitely need X server running with fvwm2 or any other light
> weight WM. Dail net with wvdial and maybe netscape or opera for
> web access. Does it have sound ? Then fix as many "X" and svga
> based games as possible (with sound).
Good suggestions all. Except I'd use Window Maker as the WM as it is
pretty small and functional.
Thaths
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