On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 6:40 PM, Rob Owens <row...@ptd.net> wrote: > So what about my idea of utilizing the lightweight distros for the chroot? > If somebody can give me some guidelines about how it would work, and what > the distro maintainers would need to do, I'll start joining their mailing > lists. I've got no job for the next 2 weeks -- I'll get right to work on this > if the LTSP developers think it's a feasible idea. > > Damn Small Linux claims it'll run on a 486dx with 16mb RAM -- with X. > Recommended specs are a Pentium 200 MHz with 64mb RAM. There's also DSL-N, > which is apparently Damn Small Linux with a more modern kernel. It's > minimum requirements are the same as the recommended specs above. In any > case, this seems like the kind of thing we could use to run low-power thin > clients. >
An out-of-the box solution is Slax. http://www.slax.org/ the latest version comes with a pxe boot server built in. It's also very extensible with a variety of add on modules. Plus it's very fast as it's based on Slackware. It's not that hard to make your own modules if you have a Slackware system. You can actually setup the pxe server off a system booted from a Slax live cd. It works with 128MB systems but if you have 384MB you can load the *whole* OS into ram. Doing this increases the boot time but performance becomes amazing. You can even use a usb stick as a device for filesystem persistence between boots. I have been a Slax fan for years. My lab is dual boot K12LTSP / Slax. If you still want DSL I think DRBL has the ability to pxe boot DSL. -- Robert Arkiletian Eric Hamber Secondary, Vancouver, Canada ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Open Source Business Conference (OSBC), March 24-25, 2009, San Francisco, CA -OSBC tackles the biggest issue in open source: Open Sourcing the Enterprise -Strategies to boost innovation and cut costs with open source participation -Receive a $600 discount off the registration fee with the source code: SFAD http://p.sf.net/sfu/XcvMzF8H _____________________________________________________________________ Ltsp-discuss mailing list. To un-subscribe, or change prefs, goto: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ltsp-discuss For additional LTSP help, try #ltsp channel on irc.freenode.net
