On Monday 17 May 2004, development at arainnmhor.com (Arranmore Island
Development & Employment Co-Op) wrote:
>Just a wee bit more background; the machines that were donated are 233 Mhz
>Pentium II machines with between 64-96 MB RAM and a 2 GB hard Disk. We may
>have to add more memory as an installation of Red Hat 9 was very sluggish on
>the 64 MB machines. We have a 802.11g Belkin Wireless/4 port router (for an
>WiFi hotspot) and a Cisco 24 port switch. All the machines have a 100 Mbs
>network card and we are currently networking them together. We would like
>to install a file/print server/backup and perhaps an open source internet
>café management software (Open Kiosk?) on one of the new Dells (I have
>managed a FTP network install of SUSE 9.0 on a new Dell machine but was
>unable to install the same OS on the older machines due to an unspecified
>error: “An error has occurred”). Thanks in anticipation of your help.
This is as much involvement as I'm likely to have with this, as I'm a tad
remote from Aranmore, but it occurs to me that this is a case for Linux
terminal server. The PII-223 machines with 64-96 MB RAM and a 2 GB hard Disk
just are NOT going to run a modern distribution, but they'll make dandy little
X terminal, and if the boxes donated from Dell are any way decent, they'll
make decent compute servers. I know other people (cConro Daly ?) on the list
have done something similar and might have more to add.
Niall
Maintained by the ILUG website team. The aim of Linux.ie is to
support and help commercial and private users of Linux in Ireland. You can
display ILUG news in your own webpages, read backend
information to find out how. Networking services kindly provided by HEAnet, server kindly donated by
Dell. Linux is a trademark of Linus Torvalds,
used with permission. No penguins were harmed in the production or maintenance
of this highly praised website. Looking for the
Indian Linux Users' Group? Try here. If you've read all this and aren't a lawyer: you should be!
