[nzlug] machine pre loaded with linux

[Robin Sheat]

On Tuesday 06 February 2007 09:38, Volker Kuhlmann wrote:
> No hard disk? I missed that at a glance. Someone mentioned use in the
> office, I assumed as terminal, but diskless counts as embedded device
> for which software constraints are much more dominant than for desktops.
Yeah, my thinking would be have a loader in the 32Mb that mounts all your 
filesystems remotely. Or launches an X-server which XDMCPs to another host.

> 32MB doesn't even allow to run pfsense though, and don't even think of
> ipcop or home theatre, so I'm wondering what enough people are using a
32Mb flash, 128Mb RAM. So it should do most things not too badly, just pulling 
files over a network.

> Perhaps onto? That's anyone's guess though until you say what you want
> it for.
I guess you could put a USB HD in or something, but it seems to not be the 
ideal.

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