Performance is not bad at all. I regularly run a couple of xterms, xchat,
kedit, icq, and netscape. The main limitation for me is the screen size,
but hey, you can't have everything. I typically use it to write while I'm
doing installs/testing on my office workstation. In the future I may move
it to my workshop to replace the VT52 I've got out there ;^).
Stew Benedict
At 12:50 PM 1/15/01 -0500, you wrote:
>yup, been there. That is in fact what I intend to use. Unfortuantely when
>those pages were written (the good old days :) ), you could simply hook up
>a hard drive and it would boot off of it. Not my V5.
>
>not to worry, I have a hacked BIOS on order. I'm being a bit impatient
>that's all. You know, new toy.. Just thought someone on the list might
>have gone the qnx route.
>
>So, how do you find the performance? Is the 32MB enough to display apps
>(running remotely on the server) and a few local things like xmms? I'm
>thinking specifically of netscape, but perhaps one of the other browsers
>are lighter weight. I'll give Xfce or blackbox a try for WMs.
>
>thanks
>charles
>
>On Mon, 15 Jan 2001, Stew Benedict wrote:
>
>>
>> Check out the LTSP www.ltsp.org. I've got an Iopener runner as a thin
>> client, with no hard drive. It boots it's system from the server, with a
>> few files installed on the flash disk. I also did a hack to enable local
>> sound with Xfce. (BTW - I used a hacked bios, and a hard drive to
>> initially set things up.)
>>
>> Stew Benedict
>
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