To be sure I am no engineer. I'm just the crazy idea guy that still
wonders why the beige box succeeded when so many better form factors were
out at the beginning too. But I dont really wonder. I know it was the
Wintel cartel that shaped computing. If Bill Gates and Intel hadnt held
back computing for 30 years no telling how we would see and use them today.
But I digress.
Find some junk and hack it into a free LTSP client. Just that when LTSP
started there were buttloads of 386s around.
On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 1:09 PM, Jay Goldberg <jaymgoldb...@gmail.com>wrote:
> Was thinking the same thing. Just to clarify, they are not discontinuing
> x86.
>
> The standard 386 (i386 instruction set) had a max of 8MB of memory and
> clocked at 33MHz. Most commercial thin clients sold in the last 10 years
> have had 64MB or more.
>
> Even before the discontinuation of i386 a 386 wouldn't have been able to
> boot the LTSP client image AFAIK. We are talking ISA instead of PCI busses.
> This was a time when the math coprocessor (FPU) was sold as a separate
> chip! Everything since and including the Pentium is i586 which included
> nice things like an integrated FPU and MMX.
>
> A dual-core 3.06GHz Pentium D PC can be had diskless for $30. I'm not a
> fan of NetBurst, but hey, that's cheap to run LTSP on and if you're in a
> cold climate it shifts the heating bill :-P
>
> About the Arduino, unfortunately it's a microcontroller that specs memory
> in KB, not MB and MHz instead of GHz. I think you're thinking of
> raspberrypi.org or Gumstix or MK802.
>
>
> On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 1:18 PM, Michael Collins <linuxl...@gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> Cmon guys. Why are you welded to the beige box? There are so many
>> platforms out there more powerful than a 386. My junk dealer says he hasn't
>> seen a 386 in years so they are not in the junkpiles.
>> This little thing makes me wanna gush LTSP all over it.
>> http://www.arduino.cc/ So many things run linux natively for whatever it
>> is used for. How hard can it be to hang a monitor and keyboard off of them?
>>
>> Just saying, Get out of the box. The disscussion of ltsp on the droid got
>> me thinking about lots of platforms that are going to scrap right now.
>>
>> On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 10:01 AM, John Hupp <l...@prpcompany.com> wrote:
>>
>>> On 12/18/2012 9:15 AM, asmo.koski...@arkki.info wrote:
>>>
>>> A great deal of the Linux Distros are becoming too heavy.
>>>
>>> Which is the lightest and offer the most in
>>> terms of scalability, support and deployment in anyones' opinion?
>>>
>>> Debian + LXDE, I think. Debian support (almost) every arch. And LXDE is
>>> one of the lightest DE.
>>> http://wiki.debian.org/LTSP/Howtohttp://wiki.lxde.org/en/Debian
>>>
>>> I use LTSP-PNP (Ubuntu 12.04 + LXDE). Here is something about DEs, same
>>> laptop as a fat client, memory 1 GB.
>>>
>>>
>>> Lubuntu 21%
>>> http://ltsp.fi/howto/Intro/LUBUNTU_01.png
>>>
>>> MATE 25%
>>> http://ltsp.fi/howto/Intro/MATE_01.png
>>>
>>> Xubuntu 26%
>>> http://ltsp.fi/howto/Intro/XUBUNTU_01.png
>>>
>>> Gnome Classic 32%
>>> http://ltsp.fi/howto/Intro/GNOME-CLASSIC_01.png
>>>
>>> Unity 39%
>>> http://ltsp.fi/howto/Intro/UBUNTU_01.png
>>>
>>> Kubuntu 58%
>>> http://ltsp.fi/howto/Intro/KUBUNTU_01.png
>>>
>>>
>>> Best Regards Asmo Koskinen.
>>>
>>> Aiming for a light, capable, well-supported balance, I've been working
>>> with Lubuntu + LTSP and now LTSP-PNP. At the performance level, this
>>> choice was not based on any systematic benchmarking but on some selective
>>> testing. I would be interested in knowing if someone has compared that to
>>> another contender like Debian + LTSP.
>>>
>>> I also looked at Alt Linux. I did not find any distro with lower memory
>>> requirements than this. But development has been patchy, and when I looked
>>> at it 6 months ago it needed a big push to become current again, and it
>>> would also need more language support for development work. (A lot of the
>>> documentation and a bit of the interface is in Russian, though Michael
>>> Shigorin, one of the pillars of that project, has excellent English).
>>>
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>>
>>
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