Thus spake Miroslav Mazurek last Mon, May 13, 2002 at 08:27:52AM +0200: > First of all, disk is IBM SCSI 2GB that seems pretty fast to me and provides > enough space. > The idea is to find how useful is such old box. If it can do some web > browsing, mail and some simple word processing I'd be satisfied. No KDE or > Gnome. Think of putting few such boxes in some public area and enable people > (students) check their mail and surf. I don't want to pay M$ licenses. I > thought, if it runs almost smoothly win95 (or 3.11) why not Linux. > > Secondly, I'm terrified when I see that people are using PIII/Athlon with > 128MB and Win XXX for such simple tasks as POS. I don't think that you need > GUI to run such SW and I hope that Linux is not going in that direction, too. > > Thirdly, is there a way to use that box as X terminal?
Yes. Just be mindful of the peripherals (there might be a few incompatibilities with the hardware) as well as the sanity of execution (given a low-end machine w/o optimization... it might be a bit useful but it might not get as far as the clients want to ;) > -- > > Miroslav Mazurek, [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- __ -->paolo Paolo Alexis Falcone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> GnuPG KeyID: 0xEADFF6F4 University of the Philippines Manila _______________________________________________________________________________ "I think ideology sucks. This world would be a better place if people have less ideology, and a whole lot more "I do this because it's FUN and because others might find it useful, not because I have religion."" --Linus Torvalds _______________________________________________________________________________ Philippine Free Network Group free.net.ph -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
