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Best functional Linux to install or image to a 256MB embedded disk on thin client?
Anyone have any ideas? Slitaz, Puppy maybe? The thin client is a Neoware CA21 w/512MB of RAM.. I won't be using it as a thin client obviously though.. just to put something very small and fast onto.. I'd like it to boot from the embedded 256M storage, and then I can use a USB stick (8G) for extra storage.
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I'd say puppy or worst case just debian with xfce (Although I haven't really used Thin Clients with this so I can't say for sure)
puppy is really cool. I wouldnt put it directly on net, tho, the security is non-existant.
I tried a similar setup with iscsi and was much cooler.
SliTaz ftw!
Very small Distro with a ultra light DE.
Ubuntu has a terminal services product if you want to do a true thin client and not some desktop hack from a thin client
Bamn, yes that'd be better of course, however i will use synergy so don't think that will work over terminal service between my other machine
Probably will just do puppy for this, as i want it to serve as a pxe server as well, and apparently you can use this method w/puppy, and it won't conflict with the dhcp on the router...
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=64107
you could try tinycore.. works pretty good on a thin client.
tinycorelinux-screenshots
If you do decide to give it a try, Download the CorePlus version, gives you more options on install.
Debian all the way. I use it on thin clients booting from the embedded storage, external USB sticks, or laptop hard drives installed into the thin client (don't laugh, it works very well).
One challenge though is that Debian is getting bigger and Lenny (with the packages I wanted) was a tight (but workable) fit onto 512MB of storage. Squeeze would be even more so.
Also, I usually used it as a server in this config (headless encrypted storage server for example).
BTW, I love Puppy Linux but I needed to run LUKS and some other packages that it seemed to lack.
@geekalot - actually I only have 256M of embedded storage.. so I installed Slitaz.. it's great, still have about 100M free, and only uses about 40M memory.. WAY faster than Puppy on it, and there is a synergy package too, so I can share mouse/keyboard from my other machine..!
@twain Cool!
OK, next one i try when in need of something