If you can spare the paper to print out the installation guide or have a spare comp on hand during the install, it's really super easy. Just follow the directions and you're good. Also, it sounds like this might be one of the better solutions because you'll get to set up this system as light as you want it.
While I'm a fan of Gnome myself, might I suggest XFCE 4 as a lightweight DE for the machine? The particular distro isn't really what adds weight, it's the WM and DE. If you're feeling like living on the edge, I can give you a hand with getting a CVS ebuild of Enlightenment 17 to work which I'm told can even run well on hardware as old as yours!
On 11/4/05, David Zakar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
Vector's a rather spiffy Linux distro - it's like a version of Slack
that doesn't totally suck. *ducks*
But, seriously - I played with Vector, and I was impressed with the
polish it has. It's definitely worth giving a shot, especially for a
small, static system.
-DMZ
On Fri, 2005-11-04 at 14:25 -0500, Angelo Bertolli wrote:
> Nick Cummings wrote:
>
> > I think I may have thrown everyone off a bit with the terms "thin
> > client" and "terminal". There's no terminal server set up that I want
> > to use it with or anything like that. I don't know much about such
> > things. I was just thinking of something that will run X and ssh so
> > the user can login to other machines and run stuff on them (presumably
> > using X forwarding).
>
> Then you can use Debian's net install, don't select anything in tasksel
> in the installer, and then:
> apt-get install ssh
> apt-get install x-window-system
>
> Also VectorLinux is particularly small, and has a nice set of software.
>
> Angelo
>
>
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Christopher Conroy
