Was thinking the same thing. Just to clarify, they are not discontinuing
x86.
The standard 386 (i386 instruction set) had a max of 8MB of memory and
clocked at 33MHz. Most commercial thin clients sold in the last 10 years
have had 64MB or more.
Even before the discontinuation of i386 a 386 wouldn't have been able to
boot the LTSP client image AFAIK. We are talking ISA instead of PCI busses.
This was a time when the math coprocessor (FPU) was sold as a separate
chip! Everything since and including the Pentium is i586 which included
nice things like an integrated FPU and MMX.
A dual-core 3.06GHz Pentium D PC can be had diskless for $30. I'm not a fan
of NetBurst, but hey, that's cheap to run LTSP on and if you're in a cold
climate it shifts the heating bill :-P
About the Arduino, unfortunately it's a microcontroller that specs memory
in KB, not MB and MHz instead of GHz. I think you're thinking of
raspberrypi.org or Gumstix or MK802.
On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 1:18 PM, Michael Collins <linuxl...@gmail.com>wrote:
> Cmon guys. Why are you welded to the beige box? There are so many
> platforms out there more powerful than a 386. My junk dealer says he hasn't
> seen a 386 in years so they are not in the junkpiles.
> This little thing makes me wanna gush LTSP all over it.
> http://www.arduino.cc/ So many things run linux natively for whatever it
> is used for. How hard can it be to hang a monitor and keyboard off of them?
>
> Just saying, Get out of the box. The disscussion of ltsp on the droid got
> me thinking about lots of platforms that are going to scrap right now.
>
> On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 10:01 AM, John Hupp <l...@prpcompany.com> wrote:
>
>> On 12/18/2012 9:15 AM, asmo.koski...@arkki.info wrote:
>>
>> A great deal of the Linux Distros are becoming too heavy.
>>
>> Which is the lightest and offer the most in
>> terms of scalability, support and deployment in anyones' opinion?
>>
>> Debian + LXDE, I think. Debian support (almost) every arch. And LXDE is
>> one of the lightest DE.
>> http://wiki.debian.org/LTSP/Howtohttp://wiki.lxde.org/en/Debian
>>
>> I use LTSP-PNP (Ubuntu 12.04 + LXDE). Here is something about DEs, same
>> laptop as a fat client, memory 1 GB.
>>
>>
>> Lubuntu 21%
>> http://ltsp.fi/howto/Intro/LUBUNTU_01.png
>>
>> MATE 25%
>> http://ltsp.fi/howto/Intro/MATE_01.png
>>
>> Xubuntu 26%
>> http://ltsp.fi/howto/Intro/XUBUNTU_01.png
>>
>> Gnome Classic 32%
>> http://ltsp.fi/howto/Intro/GNOME-CLASSIC_01.png
>>
>> Unity 39%
>> http://ltsp.fi/howto/Intro/UBUNTU_01.png
>>
>> Kubuntu 58%
>> http://ltsp.fi/howto/Intro/KUBUNTU_01.png
>>
>>
>> Best Regards Asmo Koskinen.
>>
>> Aiming for a light, capable, well-supported balance, I've been working
>> with Lubuntu + LTSP and now LTSP-PNP. At the performance level, this
>> choice was not based on any systematic benchmarking but on some selective
>> testing. I would be interested in knowing if someone has compared that to
>> another contender like Debian + LTSP.
>>
>> I also looked at Alt Linux. I did not find any distro with lower memory
>> requirements than this. But development has been patchy, and when I looked
>> at it 6 months ago it needed a big push to become current again, and it
>> would also need more language support for development work. (A lot of the
>> documentation and a bit of the interface is in Russian, though Michael
>> Shigorin, one of the pillars of that project, has excellent English).
>>
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