[ale] [somewhat OT] Fat thin client

[Geoffrey]

What's wrong with Linux with twm?  A lightweight window manager with the 
menus for only those things she needs.  I set my mother-in-law up with a 
p200/96mb/1gig machine.  She uses sawfish/kde.

You could go a similar route, but you might have to up the memory, which 
is real cheap these days.  Possibly more disk too, but you could squeeze 
the necessary stuff into 200mb.

Jordi S. Bunster wrote:
> Problem: My mother wants email, and does not want to mess neither with
> my brother's machine neither with my workstation, because we're always
> using them.
> 
> I have some spare hardware here at home. P75, 16 or 32 megs, 200 mb
> harddisk. The problem is, I don't want to make it an X-Terminal to my
> workstation, because I don't have that much horsepower to serve her
> graphical applications and my Java development (it is already painful
> to develop Java2 on a P200 with 64 megs of ram). I'm also being the NAT
> router to the house. No way.
> 
> What I wanted was a thin standalone machine, at least with the ability
> to run a decent graphical web-broswer. Decent enough for her to access a
> web-based mail client from my workstation, and thus read her alredy
> fecthmailed messages.
> 
> I thought about FreeDOS and this Arachne graphical browser. Though its
> license seems a bit odd.
> 
> Any suggestions? By the way, buying a NIC is out of question. With that
> money, I can buy her a computer faster than mine.
> 
> -- Jsb
> 
> 
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