Re: [Nolug] Customizable Bootable CD

On Sat, 2004-01-24 at 20:55, Jeff Lee wrote:
> The machines are all over, it is not just an "in house" thing. They are sold
> to tire dealers.

Ah, well, ok.
http://morphix.sourceforge.net/modules/news/
Then I'd try to build a system using Morphix (a toolkit for
rolling your own live CDs, based on Knoppix), with XFce4, Mozilla
Firebird, and little else. Since it's Debian-based, and Debian
is *really* modular, so you'll be able to strip out everything
you don't need, and won't have to worry about dependency
issues.

> ----- 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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