With some newer, like the ones based on Mandrake 9.2, it might be that you need at least 256 Mb of RAM (case of the French-based Mandows livecd).
If you want to be able to run OpenOffice, then 128 Mb is also the minimum.
About setting up terminal servers, you have the Linux Terminal Server Project (LTSP) to get diskless workstations but you still need a strong server with a lot of RAM (I think 64 Mb for each diskless station ?). I had no pratical experience with the LTSP.
http://www.ltsp.org/ http://www.ltsp.org/documentation/ltsp-3.0.0/ltsp-3.0.html http://www.vlug.org/vlug/meetings/X-terminal_presentation/details.html http://www.solucorp.qc.ca/xterminals/
With concerns of unsuitable environments for computers, like the one you are describing do not forget that it is not good either for CDrom drives as well.
There are also other linux distros with small footprints, even some that can run from a floppy disk. But most are in text mode. The only one I know that runned a graphical environment with low resource systems was QNX (which now is commercial).
David Tremblay wrote:
Yes I was thinking of VNlinuxCD. For what I want to do a very "light weight" distro would be great. Sometimes people wants to refurbish old computer or use them in environments that are, well err.., not really suitable for computers (heat, dust, humidity, shocks, "bugs").
Removing the HD diminish the power consumption and make the computer more resistant to failure risks
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