[Linux-Discussion] Re: 128 meg drive
- From: Matteo Ianeselli <ianezz@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: linux-discussion@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2001 09:49:07 +0200
John Madden, in un'altra vita, ha scritto:
> Now, if you're wanting to run X and Netscape and all sorts of user-level
> crud, then yeah, a 486 can't handle it (unless you've got a lot of RAM,
> maybe), but I've run a lot of boxes on 486's, and they do quite well for a
> lot of stuff.
My little experience with reusing 486: our LUG was able to get some
working old IBM PS2 486 DX4 100MHz complete with keyboards and
monitors, otherwise destined to the junkyard.
We rearranged the pieces so we got 5 working machines with 16MB of RAM
and an Ethernet card, and now, thanks to the Linux Terminal Server
Project (http://www.ltsp.org), we are happily using them as X
terminals for our classroom.
They boot from a floppy with a net boot rom image, get the address
from the server via bootp, download the kernel via tftp, boot Linux,
mount `/' via NFS and then an X server is started. The whole process
(from "turn on" to "Welcome to KDE 2.1") takes about 20 seconds.
The onboard videocard (a Cirrus Logic of some sort) unfortunately is
only able to do 800x600 with 256 colours (at least this is the best I
was able to get), but that's more than enough for demonstrations.
With a little tweaking, it could be a really nice solution even for
kiosk, and to me it seems simplier than the solution JZW used for his
night club (because no software other than X is running on the
terminals).
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