Re: [Sheflug] Strange request..........

[Barrie Bremner <nospam [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>>>>> "Jose" == j l gomez-dans <Jos> writes:

    Jose> Rob Keeling wrote:
    >> on which I can pick up an ip address via dhcp and run a web
    >> browser.
    >> 
    >> Sounds fine up to now, but the target hardware is P120 / 48Mb
    >> ram (might be able to up the ram).

    Jose>     I don't know how well they work on that hardware (I
    Jose> guess you will definitely need more RAM to run mozilla, but
    Jose> depending on the browser requirements, you might get away
    Jose> with dillo :-D), but demolinux and knoppix might do what you
    Jose> want. In fact, Knoppix is pretty impressive in its own. You
    Jose> might need to tweak it a bit to get rid of the desktop
    Jose> environment.


My laptop is a P166, 48Mb RAM.

Mozilla takes an age to start, but once it's loaded, it's not bad.
I would find a lighter browser (links?) to run on this sort of
hardware tho.

As far as distros go, I'd just use Debian. A basic install is well under a
100Mb, and DHCP clients are easy enough to apt-get (IIRC, you can
configure the system to use DHCP at install time).

I'm using Debian 3.0, GNOME 1.4, kernel 2.4.19 on my laptop. Does the
job.
It's particularly nice as a wireless network X terminal to one of the
pokier machines in the house :-)

Cheers.

Baz.

-- 
Barrie J. Bremner
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