Date: Mon, 20 Sep 1999 19:30:08 +0000 From: Nick Sayer <nsayer@sftw.com> To: freebsd-small@freebsd.org Subject: I'm sure I'm not the first... Message-ID: <37E68B3F.CE813F81@sftw.com>
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There is a coffee house near where I live. They have a bunch of
Winterms, and they are really, really
awful. They're pitifully slow, they crash a lot, etc. But they're free,
so nobody complains much.
I have always had in the back of my mind that if someone called upon me
to provide them with a
design for the Internet part of an Internet coffee house, I would know
just what to do:
Use the tricks of PicoBSD to make a kernel with an MFS root containing
dhclient,
the appropriate X server and its libraries and an init script that would
use DHCP to
set up IP and then run X broadcasting for an xdm host. This would
probably be too big
to fit on a floppy, so I would put it either into a bootable flash card
or a CDROM
(using MFSROOT instead of the CDROM would trade wear on the CD drive for
RAM space. Besides, if a CD sits idle for a while, it spins down, then
the next access
takes many hundred ms for it to spin back up). It could even have a
splash screen to
hide the boot activities until X popped up.
The server in the back room would be a beefy machine capable of serving
all those X clients.
It would offer Netscape, Java ICQ and AOL IM and a Telnet client. The
only thing I would
want to add would be a way to run AOL under WINE (the WinTerms allowed
you to log in
as a guest to AOL using your own login). Last time I tried this, it
didn't work,
but maybe WINE has progressed since then...
But I digress.
I am sure I'm not the first one to have thought of this. I see some
reference on the web site for
PicoBSD to the idea of making a sort of mini X desktop with a browser
and what not, has anyone
tried making _just_ an X terminal this way?
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