I got my hands on a HP t5720. This was designed as a thin-client
workstation (originally Windows XPembedded, talking to a Windows terminal
server). It's not very powerful, with an AMD Geode NX 1500 (1.0 GHz),
256Mb RAM (16MB used for video) and a 512Mb flash "hard disk".
I plugged in a USB DVD drive and was able to boot "linux rescue" from
a C5.4 32bit disk, and it basically looks like pretty generic PC hardware.
So I thought this would be a great device to build as an "instant on"
type device. Well, as close to instant-on as possible :-) This probably
means a standard C5 build is not suitable (too many processes running;
would take a while to start up). So an "X terminal", maybe.
I look at the LTSP code base, but this looks like it wants to run as it's
own OS; I already have a C5 server in my house, I don't want to build
another one (not even as a virtual image).
Acting as an X terminal, I'd guess the 256Mb RAM should be sufficient;
it won't be processing much beyond the display locally (although I might
want to enable ssh and add a locally connected printer). The root disk
could be local (512Mb flash) or by NFS.
What do people recommend for building this? What would have the quickest
power-on-to-ready time?
--
rgds
Stephen
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