I'd just do a strait install instead of a liveCD. Those machines dont have the fastest cd drives or enough ram to cache usefull programs, so it will always be painfully slow. Installing a simple gentoo setup on those machines can be done in about a day. Much less if you use pre-built packages. Basically all you need is the base system and X11. Then you could run a full kde or gnome session off of another box. To make it usable, remember to use ssh -YC instead of -XC. That will enable RENDER and all sorts of other goodies.
-matt On 11/4/05, Ritchie, Josiah S. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'd second David. LTSP is really useful, but has to be worth the setup. > Since this is only a short-time thing. I think you could use LiveCD to > boot the machine. Then you could connect with that to another > workstation. Alternately, there is NX, VNC, etc. > > Of course, you could just do the X-forward stuff over SSH. All in all, > this is all dependant on the user's knowledge. I'm assuming he is > capable of learning. > > >From any of this, you could base the system on some random LiveCD, > probably want to pick one that is light on resources. > > JSR/ > > -----Original Message----- > From: UM Linux User's Group [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf > Of David Zakar > Sent: Friday, November 04, 2005 12:21 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [UM-LINUX] Making on old machine a useful terminal > > I've used LTSP before - actually wrote a paper about it as a class > project. It is rather non-trivial to implement. > > What I would suggest is making use of XDMCP. I'm sure there's some way > to specify using it on boot. > > -DMZ > > On Fri, 2005-11-04 at 11:16 -0500, Angelo Bertolli wrote: > > This is the one I would use, but I never had a chance: > > http://ltsp.org/ > > > > Nick Cummings wrote: > > > > > We have two old machines sitting around the office (both are > something > > > like Pentium 200 MHz with 64 MB of RAM) and we have a visitor for a > > > few months with no computer to use at the moment. I'd like to make > > > one of those a useful terminal, probably just something that could > run > > > X so the user could ssh to another machine and run programs on the > > > remote machine. Is anyone aware of a good (preferably easy to setup > > > and manage) distro for what I want that will work on that sort of > > > hardware? > > > > > > I'm not sure if this is exactly what people mean when they say "thin > > > > client", but I thought that was the right direction, so I did some > > > looking. I found, for example, ThinStation > > > > > > http://thinstation.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/ThIndex > > > > > > which looks like it might work. I'm wondering if any of you have > > > tried doing something like this and have suggestions as to a best > > > bet. As I said, ease is a pretty big priority here, so a fairly > > > ready-made solution is what I'm seeking. > > > > > > Nick > > > > >
