Re: [Nolug] Customizable Bootable CD

The machines are all over, it is not just an "in house" thing. They are sold
to tire dealers.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Ron Johnson" <ron.l.johnson@cox.net>
To: "NOLUG ML" <nolug@joeykelly.net>
Sent: Saturday, January 24, 2004 5:04 PM
Subject: Re: [Nolug] Customizable Bootable CD

> On Sat, 2004-01-24 at 11:09, Jeff Lee wrote:
> > Well these would be highly graphical pages that I would need to display.
> > They are for a tire/rim store and they show the different wheels on your
> > car. Its all programmed in flash so that is why I need it to run. I want
to
>
> Then I'd use the XFce4 WM, since it & Mozilla/Firebird both depend
> on Gtk.
>
> > use a minimal linux that runs off of a cd/dvd so that the machines dont
need
> > harddrives to work. Also they would beable to use smaller processors and
> > this would keep costs down.
>
> Hmmm. Given enough RAM, and your definition of "smaller processors",
> that should work fine.
>
> Have you also considered some sort of LTSP system? That way, any
> changes can be made once, on the server, and would propagate in-
> stantly to the clients. Also, the clients could be totally disk-
> less, and very low-power, since the server would be doing all of
> the Flash computations. Of course, if you go that route, you'd
> have to run cat5, adequately size a server, etc.
>
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Steven Cardella" <ssc@bertucciinc.com>
> > To: <nolug@joeykelly.net>
> > Sent: Saturday, January 24, 2004 10:46 AM
> > Subject: Re: [Nolug] Customizable Bootable CD
> >
> >
> > > Hey, you might not even need X (I don't know if these support flash,
or
> > > if flash is even necessary...), there are some svgalib (run from a
> > > console, but graphical) browsers out there.
> > >
> > > a search on freshmeat came up with:
> > > arachne
> > > links
> > > w3m?
> > > wb0
> > >
> > > Anyway, hope this helps.
>
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