Hi Les,

On  Di 11 Mär 2014 20:51:22 CET, Les Mikesell wrote:

On Tue, Mar 11, 2014 at 2:27 PM, Mike Gabriel
<[email protected]> wrote:

I'm looking more for something that would work to boot older laptops.
Don't need it badly enough to build my own, but thought it might be
handy after xp support expires to be able to revive one for occasional
use without installing anything.


Install a minimal Debian system. Add our package archive [1] and then
install the package "x2gothinclient". Done.

You can install this setup to a local hard drive or on a USB stick and make
that bootable via syslinux.

Mike

[1] deb http://packages.x2go.org/debian wheezy main

I know it is relatively simple but I thought perhaps someone had
already done it with some research on the best underlying support for

I provide such images to customers from time to time (for money). But it is really easy to build them yourself.

hardware.   Is debian as good as ubuntu for things like wifi firmware,
etc.?

I am most of the time happy with a kernel from Debian backports (and the non-free firmwares as also found in backports).

I am not a hardware fraggle, so I have some devices that are not the hottest stuff, but with the kernel images from Debian backports, I have solved every issue encountered so far.

Mike

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