[LUAU] LSTP thin client knoppix variant idea?

[Brian Chee]

This is exactly what Larry Elisson (Oracle dude) did for a small company
called N!C (New Internet Computers) that sold in the $200 range when
workstations were hovering in the $1200 range....it's problem was a lack of
swap and a slow cdrom drive. Everytime you changed an application, the
entire app had to come off the slow cdrom which made it frustrating to use.

When N!C changed to faster cdrom drives, it got alot better...but lack of
swap and a small amount of ram really crippled the product...which no longer
exists....

/brian chee

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dave Burns" <tburns at hawaii.edu>
To: <daves-navel at googlegroups.com>; "LUAU" <luau at lists.hosef.org>
Sent: Wednesday, March 22, 2006 12:01 PM
Subject: [LUAU] LSTP thin client knoppix variant idea?


Is there any advantage to using a knoppix-like live CD to make a feeble box
into a thin client? I don't know enough about LSTP to know whether this
makes sense - if the server isn't serving os & apps, do you still need it
for anything?

* no need for special NIC, but CD drive or memory stick needed instead.
* Can use a windows box without any mods, sort of a poor man's dual boot.
* needs less memory?

WDYT?

Dave
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