Re: [SL] newbie question regarding laptop POS

[Hall F. <hei...@io...>]

Thanks for responding David,

> First: All you have to worry about is your server.. .any machine can act
> as client. I have a similar mixed bag.
>
> If your server doesn't need to be online 24/7, the lapdog will do fine. 
>
> As far as importing data, you need info from someone else.. I've never
> needed to do it ;-)  It seems to me that the laptop being POS and server
> makes things relatively easy. Then when you plug your laptop into your
> lan you have access to everything you need.
>
> I'm assuming that your joomla/ecommerce is off line when you are at
> shows anyway, and that it's all installed on the laptop?? Or did i miss
> something?
>
>   

No, thats incorrect.  My websites are all run offsite in Cedar Falls at 
a Major Data Center.  The laptops only original purporse was GPS 
navigation and email while traveling.
It has since come up that it would be great to use it also as a POS 
system while at the shows.  Thats why I was thinking of having some part 
of SQL-Ledger on the laptop.  I can see your point about having it be 
the server completely.
Do you know if "Damn Small Linux" will handle sql-ledger?  I ask because 
the drive space on the laptop is very limited.
Its a lowly ADM-K6 381mhz system with 192mb of ram. and a 4G HD.  It 
Does have a dvd drive so I could I believe run a "live" variant of linux 
and store the data ONLY on the hd.  Another alternative I suppose would 
be to purchase a USB drive for it but I think that would be fairly 
expensive.
I don't know what the bare minimum I would need to make it function as a 
nix server and still retain at least windows 98 on it for the GPS.

Thanks
Troy
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