[KLUG Members] Re: Linux in high schools.

[Bill]

On Tuesday 03 July 2001 03:30 pm, you wrote:

I just got a "first look" at Pocket Linux. It needs to allow for 
unpriveleged accounts and local printing but other than that, it 
would make a fantastic distro for diskless workstations connected to 
a file / print server via NFS. That makes TCO mighty low on the Unix 
/ Linux side of the room.

I have emailed its packager / author at coven@coven.m1.net regarding 
the user accounts and printing.

If bootp is on the server, login should be fully automated. (I do not 
have it running so can't check.) If no bootp, it looks for ppp. If no 
ppp it will still allow eth0 connections via manual setup. VERY 
slick. I am running it on a dumpster-bait HP Vectra PII-233 with 64 m 
ram and a 10/100 nic. (Pocket Linux runs at 10 mhz.) It's smooth as 
silk. It should run nicely on an 8 m ram system. I don't have such a 
lame box to try it on, though. It allows you to change floppies on 
the fly and is extremely tolerant of a disorderly shutdown. (disk 
out, power off) It lives entirely in ram ... and that means you 
should be able to use other diskette based programs ... such as a 
BASIC interpreter ... locally as well as over the network.

I am a student at HFCC in Dearborn and we are using Coherent there. 
Coherent won't permit ANY of this stuff!

Bill


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