On Thu, 2003-11-27 at 11:57, Fred N. van Kempen wrote:
> On Wed, 26 Nov 2003, Hans Franke wrote:
>
> > Because the true cost is more than just the board? Take allone
> > the task of finding Disk drives that work with old computers,
> > large enough to hold for example the webcam pictures, and other
> > stuff, not to talk the Linux system - serious, the time when you
> > could install a full figured Server on a 100 MB drive is gone.
> > I still have such a system (486-133) running at home to serve
> > an old style mud, but even back then I had to do the setup by
> > hand to have enough free space ... Today, below a Gig nothing
> > is realy doable - except you make the installation of the sys
> > your task, instead of using it as a tool.
> Unless you use a system less bloated than the average Linux distro,
> of course. Which means zapping the totally useless graphic user
> interface, for one, and most of the totally useless packages they
> all deliver.
To continue this slightly off-topic thread :-)
Linux systems don't have to be big. I have two (an iPAQ and mini-itx)
that are fully functional Linux systems running off 32MB (yes M not G)
"disks". The iPAQ runs off the internal memory and the mini-itx
boots off a 126MB USB key which is current partitioned down to 32MB.
To make a very nice file server, just add some hard drive for the
data....
Take a look at www.handhelds.org for more in the iPAQ and
http://www.8ung.at/spblinux/ for how to get Linux on a USB key.
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Received on Wed Nov 26 2003 - 19:24:49 GMT