[NTLUG:Discuss] 486SX Distro

[rob apodaca]

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>> I don't know about a distro that can do all that but I know you can certainly make that 486 run as an Xwindows terminal. Check out http://www.ltsp.org/
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> This sounds promising again how well would it work with a 486sx chip just piping the display from another box would be beneficial if I could get it to allow an autologin feature.
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Keep in mind that as long as your workstation hardware can display X (2meg vid cards seem to work best, but it really depends on what resolution you want), all of the application processing is done by the Server. So very little is actually needed of the 486 client's processor (it only needs to run the kernel that has been loaded over the network). While it is possible to run applications on the workstations, the default for LTSP is to run them on the Server.

As far as auto login goes, I don't have experience using this with LTSP, however the LTSP-discuss mail archives seem to suggest that it is possible:
http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=1093645