<quote who="Christopher JS Vance">
At the moment we're using Thinstation as a diskless Linux distribution for
running Tcl/Tk applications with Firefox, but I'm finding it quite
person-hostile for reconfiguration, etc.
I wonder what kind of diskspace or memory footprint I'd need if I wanted
to replace it with a working subset of a real distribution like Ubuntu or
Fedora. I want to use official packages for easy maintenance, but to
avoid cruft like Gn*me and K*E. Sound use includes music and VoIP.
Hardware is VIA motherboards and CPUs with 512MB memory and a touchscreen.
No shell access for regular users, no window manager, etc.
Hints about which directions to avoid would also be useful.
On Mon, Sep 19, 2005 at 04:57:32PM +1000, Jeff Waugh wrote:
You could try out the deeply integrated LTSP functionality in Ubuntu 5.10
(which will be released in mid-October, but available as a Preview release
right now, and well worth testing). It'll work with whatever X session you
choose to set up.
I think you might have misunderstood.
We have a file server already, running a different open OS.
We want to boot from the server, but run all programs including
Firefox and Tk locally on the minimal footprint diskless Linux.
No swap.
I managed once to get a chrooted Red Hat kernel build environment in
"only" 50 .rpms and that was painful. I guess I could try doing the
same sort of thing with Ubuntu, but was wondering how many .debs will
it take me to get this kind of stuff running with no recommended
packages, just the obligatory ones. And how many MB of ram disk
that'll cost.
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