On Thu, Dec 19, 2002 19:27:57 at 07:27:57PM -0800, Jack Bowling (jbinpg@shaw.ca) wrote: > On Thu, Dec 19, 2002 at 03:06:23PM -0800, Taylor, ForrestX wrote: > > JBRENNANSARDOU@aol.com wrote: > > >Hello everybody, > > > I'm in education and I am trying to recycle small > > >time Pentiums with small disks : some only have disks of about 170megas. > > >Are there any linux versions out there which take up only about 110 > > >megas thus leaving some space for data. > > >Thanks for any advice perhaps I should give up the ghost and be realistic? > > >John Brennan-Sardou > > >jbrennansardou@aol.com > > > > Try the RULE project first (http://www.rule-project.org/en/), although > > 170MB is pretty small. Perhaps you could combine all of the hard drives > > into one server and use LTSP (http://www.ltsp.org/). > > You may also want to check out Linux in Schools. They are bigtime backers of > LTSP (Linux Terminal Server Project) which is a much more cost effective > way to recycle old PCs. > Yes, if there is a new PC to hook them to. There is also no doubt that LTSP is much more mature than RULE: they started first. If there is a network to build anyway the thin client/server approach of LTSP is a very good solution In any case, the two projects are complementary in that (= stand alone vs networked PC approach) and many other ways. There is no real competition/overlapping in my opinion. Right now I am running the latest RULE iso image from RH 8.0 package on a P133 with 32 MB of RAM. I haven't customized it yet, but is ~400 MB on disk with standard X and several servers and web tools installed. The ISO itself is ~24 MB. We haven't announced it yet because it is alpha, and because I need to work on the website taking advantage of the holydays. As a matter of fact, this is not an announce, just a request to the original poster to give it a try and let me know off list. The ISO url is: http://savannah.nongnu.org/download/rule/slinky/slinky-v0.3.4/ details (right now) are only in the RULE mailing list archives. Again, this is not a release announce, but a call for alpha testers, YMMV, etc. etc... Best Regards, Marco Fioretti RULE project leader -- Psyche-list mailing list Psyche-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
