[ale] Praise for the Puppy!

[Daniel Howard]

Um, I must have missed something here...these old laptops can boot off 
the network and be full fledged thin clients just fine; it's one of the 
same old IBM thinkpad R30/R31 series laptops like we set up at Brandon 
and Garden Hills elementary schools as thin client hallway stations. 
Why not just use it as a thin client at school and then use as 
standalone Puppy system at home?  Most homes I'd end up donating 
something like this to wouldn't have broadband, and only might have 
dialup/low speed DSL at best.  What's the application for the nxclient?

Daniel

Jim Kinney wrote:
> And now for your next assignment, should you choose to accept:
> 
> add nxclient to puppyLinux
> 
> old discussion here:
> http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=11937
> 
> Of course we will disallow all knowledge of you should you fail....
> 
> On Fri, 2008-11-07 at 12:31 -0500, Daniel Howard wrote:
>> I just tried out PuppyLinux 4.1 on an old donated laptop that only had 
>> 128 MB of RAM, and was very impressed.  Seamonkey was quite zippy, as 
>> was Abiword and GNumeric, and you can now even use a GUI to add/remove 
>> new applications, albeit a highly reduced set due to the constraint of 
>> living in 128 MB of RAM.  But a great solution for older laptops that is 
>> user friendly enough for newbies IMHO.  Best, Daniel
>>
> 
> 

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Daniel Howard
President and CEO
Georgia Open Source Education Foundation