> I'm facing a ~$1K site license charge for NCD's NCBridge software for > their NC948 X Terminals, and since my site consists of exactly three > of these things that I bought for less than $250 each I'm balking a > bit. > > The NC948 consists of a 165 MHz QED RM5231, S3 Savage4 graphics > controller, and an AMD PCnet NIC of some sort. It doesn't seem like > there's anything in that set that Linux or XFree86 wouldn't be happy > to run. What PCI bridge is being used? Galileo? > To be completely explicit what I'm proposing is to run Linux on the X > Terminal (as opposed to the server that provides boot image, xdm, > etc.). My question is: has anybody done it or does anybody know a > reason why it can't be done? I think it's probably doable, but if you want two reasons why it might not be, I'd say they would be: 1) Undocumented/unsupported PCI or other interface 2) Not enough RAM
