[Nottingham] Next Meeting? --Wednesday 2003 January 8th

[Lee]

Sounds cool :-).:-)...

On Fri, 2003-01-03 at 15:52, Michael Erskine wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: malcolm_read@ntlworld.com [mailto:malcolm_read@ntlworld.com] 
> > Sent: 03 January 2003 14:18
> > Subject: Re: RE: [Nottingham] Next Meeting? --Wednesday 2003 
> > 
> > Mike, 
> > 
> > I don't know what Pixie is & I don't particularly want to 
> > download & install it just to find out.
> 
> Good point - I mentioned it at the last meeting and people seemed to
> find it interesting. Its only really of use on quite specific hardware.
> 
> > Perhaps you could point us all to a URL that gives some basic 
> > information about the product & its functions.
> > 
> > Thanks, Malcolm
> 
> Ok, here's the blurb...
> 
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> 
> Pixie - a Linux distribution for generally non-interactive diskless
> networked (PXE-booting) VIA EPIAs 
> 
> Main features and design goals: -
> 
> * Geared around Via EPIA 5000 mainboard - a low cost, small form factor,
> standard PC. 
> * Based on the ideas behind various other thin client linux
> distributions: notably PXES, NetStation, Diet-PC, and LTSP. 
> * Developed on the Slackware 8.1 distribution (a modern, unbloated but
> complete, straighforward Linux distribution which works out of the box
> on VIA EPIAs unlike many of the other popular Linux distributions) 
> * Kernel = 2.4.18 for C3 processor architecture (eventually: currently
> 2.4.17 for i386 patched for cramfs)
> * BusyBox 0.60.5 multibinary 
> * Base system layout - simplified - based on NetStation layout with
> tempfs and ramfs separation. 
> * XFree86 4.2 - with trident.o driver
> * blackbox window manager 
> * Linux or Win32 boot server
> * simple config and setup a must 
> * Java(tm) Runtime Environment available with AWT and swing -- Blackdown
> 1.3.1 
> * glibc 2.2.5
> * Open Source (but not yet)
> 
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> 
> It is currently used as a lower cost platform for my company's passenger
> information display software (in Java) for displaying timetables,
> notices, and adverts in bus, rail and air terminals. It does, however
> lend itself to being quite a powerful interactive X-terminal or telnet
> client and may be useful as a low-cost kiosk platform.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Michael.
> 
> 
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