Star Linux Lite: Cobind and the Simpler Life
Linked by James LaRue on Mon 14th Jun 2004 06:35 UTC
Linux Recently, I got my hands on version 0.2 of Cobind, a Linux lite desktop, based on Red Hat/Fedora Core 1, from a software company in Pittsburgh. Not yet in general release, Cobind is a one disc wonder.
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Another option for 32MB Pentium 1's
by Terrell Prude', Jr. on Mon 14th Jun 2004 13:34 UTC

There' s another option for those old Pentium 1's w/ 32MB DRAM. Use them as LTSP clients, or, if you want a turnkey system, use the K12LTSP variant (http://www.k12ltsp.org). I have twenty-five such old machines (P-166's and P-233's) running as thin clients off of a single K12LTSP server, and these old machines now feel like they're PIII-900's with gobs of DRAM. Yes, twenty-five of them. The server to do this cost me just under $2000 to build. Thus, I effectively upgraded twenty-five machines for $2000, and I could easily have done forty for that same amount. Just think about that.

That said, I think it's great that distros like Cobind and Damn Small Linux exist. For students looking for a cheap computer (say, a US$99 special), like a 128MB PII-333, Cobind sounds like it'd be great, especially for writing papers and such. My one concern would be with printers. As a college student, I of course had to print out many a paper and turn it in. That's very easy to do with Red Hat's printconf utility. Does Cobind include something like printconf (say, CUPS), or even the actual printconf itself?

--TP