From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jan 21 06:18:35 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6D22E16A4CE for ; Wed, 21 Jan 2004 06:18:35 -0800 (PST) Received: from out1.smtp.messagingengine.com (out1.smtp.messagingengine.com [66.111.4.25]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B2F3E43D1D for ; Wed, 21 Jan 2004 06:18:32 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from nkinkade@fastmail.fm) X-Sasl-enc: RRdtBrtLeNsh5ERurlFoUQ 1074694708 Received: from [206.26.199.146] (unknown [206.27.244.214]) by www.fastmail.fm (Postfix) with ESMTP id 280844B0E73; Wed, 21 Jan 2004 09:18:21 -0500 (EST) Received: from nkinkade by [206.26.199.146] with local (Exim 4.12) id 1AjJBC-000GzG-00; Wed, 21 Jan 2004 08:18:02 -0600 Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2004 08:18:02 -0600 From: Nathan Kinkade To: Didier Wiroth Message-ID: <20040121141802.GQ5411@npkfbsd> Mail-Followup-To: Didier Wiroth , Jonathon McKitrick , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <1e04e166ee.166ee1e04e@etat.lu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="MhSX8IAbx0S7JzA+" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1e04e166ee.166ee1e04e@etat.lu> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Sender: Nathan Kinkade cc: Jonathon McKitrick cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ideas for an old BSD laptop? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: Nathan Kinkade List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2004 14:18:35 -0000 --MhSX8IAbx0S7JzA+ Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, Jan 20, 2004 at 11:55:26PM +0100, Didier Wiroth wrote: >=20 > ---- Messages d=B4origine ---- > De: Jonathon McKitrick > Date: mardi, janvier 20, 2004 11:36 pm > Objet: ideas for an old BSD laptop? >=20 > >=20 > > Hi all, > >=20 > > I haven't used my infamous Toshiba Satellite with FreeBSD 4.8 very=20 > > muchsince I got my desktop system with a flatscreen. I'm trying=20 > > to think of > > something interesting to do with it now. I don't really need a=20 > > separatefirewall, and it doesn't make sense to use it as a=20 > > fileserver. With a ppp > > connection, it couldn't easily be a webserver either. > >=20 > > Any ideas on something interesting to use it for? Maybe some kind of > > learning experience? > >=20 > > NOTE: Please CC me, as I am not currently subscribed. Thanks. > >=20 > > jm > > --=20 > > Perhaps you could use it as a thin terminal client with vnc or even > windows terminal client (http://www.rdesktop.org/). Yes, this is a good idea. Except you maybe you could play around with network booting - maybe in a diskless setup. I have been working with diskless X-terminals for a while (although using Linux ltsp.org) and I see great potential for schools, Internet cafes and developing countries. There is some documentation for diskless booting in the FreeBSD handbook although I'm not sure how up to date it is: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/network-diskless.= html Nathan --=20 gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys D8527E49 --MhSX8IAbx0S7JzA+ Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFADooaO0ZIEthSfkkRAniTAJ9BpW1JaXRqv+cpNErPBIoctmdd6QCePJ6N ZDhIok1mtmoVScMqtiTwNn0= =DUkC -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --MhSX8IAbx0S7JzA+--