Indeed, FreeSCO turns any 386/486 into a reliable router. I have two of them running for years and so far neither of them required *any* maintenance.
Another application suitable for 386 terminals might be a non-GUI POS farm. Perhaps even with B/W monitors. Just a thought! :-) On 24-Jan-03 rob apodaca wrote: > On Fri, 24 Jan 2003 09:56:13 -0500 > Scott Sherrill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> It seems to me that further use could be squeezed out of 386's and >> early 486's but perhaps not as a graphical workstation. >> >> Ideas floating around my head: >> >> * wireless base stations - I would think you'd have better >> (central) >> management tools with Linux than you would with Belkin/D-Link >> stations....and you could replace components as they fail. Not as >> small and pretty as the base stations, but price is about the same >> (cheaper with a good e*bay shopper) for a wireless isa as a belkin >> station. >> >> * edge snort boxes? >> >> * public (at least inside the institution) palm sync stations? >> >> * x10 stuff (although what I have no idea) >> >> * mini web servers? >> >> Anybody doing exciting things with x86 ISA boxes that don't >> involve >> workstations? Is there value in any of the above ideas? > > Hi Scott, > I think there is alot of value in the above. > I have been thinking along the very same lines. Some other things I > think could be useful are: > > - routers (maybe even with vpn) > - additional dhcp servers (for other subnets) > > I had a few others but I can't think of them right now. I really > would > like to start working on some of these things for ltsp4.0 but want > to > wait until it is out of alpha. The build environment for it should > make > adding these things quite easy. > > My .02 > -rob > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.NET email is sponsored by: > SourceForge Enterprise Edition + IBM + LinuxWorld = Something 2 > See! > http://www.vasoftware.com > ____________________________________________________________________ > _ > Ltsp-discuss mailing list. To un-subscribe, or change prefs, > goto: > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ltsp-discuss > For additional LTSP help, try #ltsp channel on irc.freenode.net -------------------------------------------- Wouter DeBacker ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) 25-Jan-03 16:45:28 (SuSE Linux Xfmail) -------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.NET email is sponsored by: SourceForge Enterprise Edition + IBM + LinuxWorld = Something 2 See! http://www.vasoftware.com _____________________________________________________________________ Ltsp-discuss mailing list. To un-subscribe, or change prefs, goto: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ltsp-discuss For additional LTSP help, try #ltsp channel on irc.freenode.net
